What benefit do I get from using a 64-bit server?

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Published on 2010-06-02T21:44:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 21:56 UTC
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I bought a small 256MB slice from slicehost and installed Ubuntu 10.04 64bit and wordpress on it. Performance was dismal as apache was eating up all my memory. Once I did some taming of apache and switched to fCGI things ran fine.

Next I rebuilt as a 32 bit server, and performance was much better.

What benefit would I get from a 64 bit server. Is it all about the memory?

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