On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:18 pm, Remco Barendse wrote: > Hi list! > > I have to do a new bare metal installation of a box running Asterisk with > bristuff or vzaphfc. > > The box will be used as a really lightly loaded file server and pbx. > > Any advise on which architecture I should use? The cpu is a 64 bit capable > AMD (the box is running x86_64 now) but is still suffering from echo on > the BRI lines. > > Should I go with the normal x86 or the 64 bit x86_64 arch.? >
x86-32 isn't as fun as x86_64, but it's fewer hassles. With 64-bit systems you'll run into the odd app or driver that hasn't been ported to 64-bit architectures yet. You can run 32-bit code on 64-bit systems in chroots, which I think is a horrid pain, but some folks don't mind. :) The big advantage of a 64-bit system is being able to handle huge amounts of memory (over 4 gigabytes) and gigantic files (up to 4 exabytes, wheee!), which doesn't really apply to an Asterisk server. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users