Hi! we run a dual 246-opteron 4gb ram mysql server here. it's running for about half a year now, without any problems at all. so i think debian pure64 is fully usable for a mysql production server for example :)
Corin Saturday, October 2, 2004, 3:44:03 PM, you wrote: OJ> Patrick Flaherty wrote: >> It was my understanding that sarge wasn't really anyone's focus, just a >> nice little fun project for someone spare time. I'd personaly love to >> see an actual full fledged sarge repos, but most early adopters of >> hardware are used to using unstable everything, or just run in 32bit >> compat mode. >> maybe i'm wrong, is anyone going hardcore at sarge64? OJ> It would have been an interesting alternative for our new dual-opteron server OJ> to running sarge 32bit with amd64-libs and 64bit kernel to us. Unstable is no OJ> choise on servers, but pure64 with packages from stable would have make OJ> sense, although still risky because non official. OJ> However we finall give it up and decided to use pure sarge 32bit anyway, when OJ> finding out that the latest kernel still doesn't support Adaptec I2O RAID OJ> (SCSI_DPT_I2O) in 64bit mode. OJ> Besides, I am meanwhile in the opinion that Debian isn't ready for 64bit on OJ> servers yet, although you all do a great job, but it's too eary. We will give OJ> it another try next year. OJ> Is there a website with information about the state of pure64 and its plans? OJ> For example it was a surprise to read about pure64 sarge here. I am courious OJ> how it's going on with any 64bit support in sarge (long-term). FAQ and OJ> debian.org are quite vague about that. OJ> Oliver
