Re: AMD64 Question

[Soenke von Stamm <sstamm@affili.net>]

Am Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2004 05:29 schrieb Simon Buchanan:
> The servers spec is currently:
>
> - Tyan Tiger 7320 motherboard, 2xXeon (800Mhz), 2GB RAM, 3Ware 9000 SATA
> hardware Raid (PCI-X), Intel nics.
>
> My question is: Above sinatlling sarge and running this kernel
> "kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp", is it worth looking at the AMD64
> debian port for this server? bearing in mind that it is a production
> system and needs to be a high-availability one at that.

Hi,

Pentium-III based Xeons do not sport iAMD64 (yeah ok, EM64T ;-), you'd need 
the latest and greatest Xeons for that, explicitly marked as EM64T capable.


yours,

 Sönke