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Re:Ask HN: What Linux distro for a Rails app that needs to s... by SwellJoe on Monday April 13, 2009 @02:27AM (#559494)
We've noticed that several VPS providers are only offering 64-bit OS installs...which makes no sense. I kinda suspect it is simply a way to force people to pay for more memory down the road. The memory usage of dynamic languages (Ruby included) is dramatically higher in 64 bit builds...more than 50% in many cases.

If you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, it makes absolutely no sense to have a 64 bit OS install.

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