22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
10:17 p.m.
Matt wrote:
back I see is the max RAM on i386 but perhaps I am wrong. 90 percent of our CPU load is Spamassassin. Disk I/O is likely a big bottle neck
Are you using spamd?
I ask, because me mate's system was rather busy, and it transpired he wasn't.
Other than extra RAM, AMD-64 CPUs have more registers, and they work best with 64-bit code, so for CPU-intensive work you should see better performance with 64-bit Linux than with 32-bit.
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John
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