64bit or not ?

[Stéphane Konstantaropoulos]

Yeah,

All my systems run Fedora, CentOS or RHEL 64bit when the hardware allows it, 
and no problem at all, it's exactly the same from an admin point of view, and 
32 bit software will work too, we have Legato backup clients on them, e.g.

Go ahead, it makes a difference in performance.

Le mercredi 16 janvier 2008, Ben Ruset a écrit :
> I generally believe that once you go over 4GB it's better to go 64 bit.
> You can run a >4GB box on 32 bit Linux with the hugemem kernel, but it's
> a bit of a kludge.
>
> I run 15 1950's with 16GB of RAM each running VMWare Server on CentOS
> 4.5 64 bit without a problem. As long as you're not getting too crazy
> (and it seems like you're not - just running NFS) then you should be
> alright with 64 bit Linux.
>
> Robert von Bismarck wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Not really Dell-Specific, but here goes.
> > We have a couple NFS servers, that serve mailboxes to our mailservers
> > from a SAN. Those servers are old-ish 2850 dual-xeon 2.8Ghz boxes
> > running Centos4.5 with a coupls fibrechannel adapters.
> > These are getting a little bit loaded so we're looking at replacing
> > those with some quadcore 1950 with 8Gb ram, and now we're not sure
> > whether to go the 64bit route or not.
> >
> > Any hints/pointers/opinions/experiences will be welcome.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Robert von Bismarck
> > Senior Systems Engineer
> > VTX Services SA
> >
> >
> >
> >
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