Monday, August 24, 2009

Messaging Server 64-bit Edition Is Better



With the release of Microsoft Exchange 2007 onwards, the production support is only on 64-bit platform. Reason is simple: 

To scale and to sustain heavier load, you need more RAM. Bigger mailboxes also require larger addressing space.




Sun recently advises its customers, who are on Message Server x86 32-bit platform, to migrate to 64-bit platform. Similar reasons given:

  • Solves the problems with large store.idx files 
  • Ability to run a reasonable number of imapd processes instead of running dozens of them.
  • Better LDAP cache utilization

No comments:

Post a Comment