Just saw
this story about the Nagafen server delays.
Quote:This is not only a move to new hardware and a new database version, but also a move from 32bit to 64bit. This will allow us to allocate a significantly larger amount of memory towards the database cache which translates to much better performance for you.
I'm surprised that they were not running 64 bit before although the following comment makes it sound like only the software was limiting things. I wonder if this is part of a plan to see fewer servers with much large populations?
Quote:When the merge is behind us and we’ve had a chance to see the new DB hardware in action, we’ll make a plan for migrating the rest of the servers.
Either they are upgrading everything here just to get one version of the server software to maintain, or maybe we could be in for another round of server mergers, but for good reasons instead? Might be a tough one to market though.
