https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/32-vs-64-bit-forwarder/m-p/38365#M7060 <P>As long as your system can run 32-bit software (is not pure-64), running a 32-bit forwarder should be just fine. The main advantages of using 64-bit Splunk are performance improvements with searching and indexing.</P> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:34:49 GMT amrit 2012-04-27T16:34:49Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/32-vs-64-bit-forwarder/m-p/38364#M7059 <P>I'm curious what the advantage to running the 64-bit forwarder is. I assume it won't ever need enough memory that it will matter.</P> <P>So are there any advantages?</P> <P>If there aren't then it would make things easier if we could just push out one version to all forwarders (the 32 bit version)</P> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:28:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/32-vs-64-bit-forwarder/m-p/38364#M7059 christopher_hod 2012-04-27T16:28:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/32-vs-64-bit-forwarder/m-p/38365#M7060 <P>As long as your system can run 32-bit software (is not pure-64), running a 32-bit forwarder should be just fine. The main advantages of using 64-bit Splunk are performance improvements with searching and indexing.</P> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:34:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/32-vs-64-bit-forwarder/m-p/38365#M7060 amrit 2012-04-27T16:34:49Z