Hi Dean, Nice to hear from you. :) Thanks for the feedback...it's just that there are several socket 939 opteron and athlon64 based servers here (some sunfires)... and I was hoping to take advantage of their arch. I guess using 32-bit kernels is a more prudent option then.
-Paul Dean Michael Berris wrote: > Hi Paul! > > On 7/25/06, Paul Patrick C. Prantilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> While I plan to test it out first, perhaps what I most would like to >> know is if it seems stable enough for production purposes. Any feedback >> would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! >> > > I guess the more appropriate question would be whether there have been > known issues with Linux in general on AMD64: and the answer is yes. > > I've had the chance to see Linux (CentOS 4.3 in particular) and the > kernel had some significant problems when dealing with context > switches (when the number of processes increased, performance degraded > significantly) and memory management (cache refreshes and heap long > jumps caused problems) needed some patience. If you plan on deploying > Linux on AMD64, if you can get away with using a 32-bit kernel > instead, then that would be a prudent choice at this point, especially > when you're talking about production environments -- and Linux on > AMD64 still in a state of flux (up until the last time I checked > anyway). > > HTH > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
