On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:00 +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Is there a benifit to running in 64bit mode? This is a mail server > running postfix and DBmail. AMD64 is faster at most all CPU-bound operations. SpamAssassin tends to be CPU- and RAM-intensive, so maybe there would be some benefit. (In benchmarks, AMD64 is never *slower* than Athlon XP, but performs some benchmarks in the same amount of clock time. And, of course, if you're going to use a lot of 4GB+ of RAM, AMD64 is *the* way to go. > Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:43 +1300, Simon Buchanan <nmc@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > > >>Hi There, > >> > >>I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB) > >>server... and just checking the kernel with 'atp-cache search > >>kernel-image'. Im wanting to use the 2.6 kernel... so would this be the > >>correct kernel-image?: > >> > >>kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on > >>PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. > > > > > > If you'd run it in 32bit mode, yes. Since it's a dual processor, get > > the SMP-enabled kernel > > > > If you're to run it in 64bit mode, you'd need to get the kernel > > compiled with amd64-generic/ em64t support (preferrably the > > SMP-enabled ones), then use the debian-amd64 port. > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West
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