| Subject | Re: Is there any benefit when using Firebird Classic in 64bit version? |
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| Post date | 2014-04-18T10:23:36Z |
First of all Thomas, thank you very much for your response.
As I am sure you know there is this 64 bit hype around and people will install 64 bit versions of applications just because 64 number is bigger than 32 = they think that bigger means better.
But I have my own brain and thought that there is no point for installing 64 bit server if single firebird process takes no more than 20 MB of RAM.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/firebird-support/conversations/messages/124144
Noone has responded me, perhaps for the reason you said - it is a good job for a consultant. And noone want to give such advice for free...
However it is hard for me to imagine the set of options in firebird config which would cause a single process to take 2GB of RAM.
Thomas,
how much would you take for an one hour of your consulting time?:) Could you send me some offer on my email?
As I am sure you know there is this 64 bit hype around and people will install 64 bit versions of applications just because 64 number is bigger than 32 = they think that bigger means better.
But I have my own brain and thought that there is no point for installing 64 bit server if single firebird process takes no more than 20 MB of RAM.
> I guess you are running with the default 75 page buffers, as well withGood guess! :-) However I am planning to change that, please take a look if you do not mind and this post:
> low in-memory sort settings etc. A great playground for Firebird
> consulting services. ;-)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/firebird-support/conversations/messages/124144
Noone has responded me, perhaps for the reason you said - it is a good job for a consultant. And noone want to give such advice for free...
However it is hard for me to imagine the set of options in firebird config which would cause a single process to take 2GB of RAM.
> But when you are using third-party UDF libraries, they usually add aYes I know that, I wrote 32 bit UDF and now I am starting to think about recompiling it with 64 bit. The reason is that guys from my company are installing 64 bit FB in Classic because they think it is better...
> dependency on the bitness for the Firebird server anyway. I have seen
> customers using their home-grown UDF library built with Delphi, thus
> 32-bit in the old days, which results in using Firebird 32-bit as well.
> You can't use Firebird 64-bit when you are using a 32-bit UDF library
> and don't have a 64-bit version of the UDF library available. But I
> guess, you know that.
Thomas,
how much would you take for an one hour of your consulting time?:) Could you send me some offer on my email?