x86_64 or i386?

Roger roger at wack.co.za
Fri Aug 18 12:09:25 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 07:21 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Roger wrote:
> > I installed FC5 x86_64 to run Qmail on it and the consequences were
> > disastrous, every 4-7 days the machine kept going down, i was losing
> 
> What was causing the machine to go down? I know the unpatched version of
> Qmail isn't 64-bit clean, but that shouldn't bring down the whole system.
> 
> 
> > in my opinion i386 is much better as for x86_64, a lot of people are
> > still experimenting and you would just be asking for trouble if you make
> > this into a production server
> 
> All decent server software should be 64-bit clean for years now. This
> shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> But really, you're tempting fate to use any version Fedora on a production
> server. If you need free, CentOS fills this part of the ecosystem.
I will be moving to either CentOS or FreeBSD, because on my new server,
whenever i had periods of high load for e-mail, my server would also
concidentally go down, the hard drives would just start resetting until
the system just went down, this happened to a similar machine with the
same OS so i guess its the kernel or maybe a problem associated with the
CD i got from my Distro!
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> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
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