64bit or not ?

[Youssef Ghorbal]

Hello,

	As far as you're using distribution packages (deb, rpms and so) for  
software you are installing on 64bit machines every thing is allright.
	But, if you compile your own softs from sources, you are going to  
regret 64bits systems with their /lib and /lib64 directories. Some  
libriairies are in the first and others are in the second and you are  
going to patch your ./configure and your Makefiles... I tried to  
compile PHP (with almost all extentions) on a RHEL EM64T system and  
didn't succeeded.

Regards
Youssef Ghorbal
Netplus Communication

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On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:11 PM, 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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