In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems. Would the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems? What kind of impact would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?
In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems. Would the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems? What kind of impact would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?
Immense impact, I'd venture to guess performance would drop by about 100%.
(In other words it wouldn't even boot)
Cheers, MaZe.
On 1/10/06, Fong Vang sudoyang@gmail.com wrote:
In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems. Would the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems? What kind of impact would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?
It doesn't go this way. You can use the 32bit version on the x86_64 systems, but not the x86_64 on the 32bit machines. The installer for the 64bit version should bitch about not supporting LONG, and then refuse to do anything other than reboot.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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