[CentOS] 64-bit CentOS - your experience

Tim Nelson

tnelson at rockbochs.com
Thu Jun 25 16:51:32 UTC 2009


----- przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> one of our developers is developing his Web applications
> (PHP-based+MySql) on 64-bit Fedora. He would like to use the same,
> 64-bit environment on CentOS. I am not against 64-bits (we use it for
> many, many years using Solaris) but what concerns me is the stability
> of 64-bit Linux. Can you share your experience regarding stability of
> 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS ? Does anybody use 64-bit CentOS in
> production (web applications) environment ?
> 
> Regards
> przemol
> 

I run 64 bit CentOS (of varying 5.x flavors) with no problems whatsoever. Stability is not a concern. To answer your question a bit more precisely, yes we do run it in a production web app environment that has high loads and lots of traffic. It just works.

--Tim



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