[CentOS] CentOS4_64 On Dell

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Tue May 3 12:23:34 UTC 2005


actually there are substantial differences in the xeon's 64 bit 
implementation.  The addressing area is one of them.

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 at 9:25am, Peter Farrow wrote
> 
> 
>>Its not a 64bit CPU though, it just has large address space support.
>>
>>It really doesn't need a 64 bit kernel as it isn't a 64bit CPU, in 
>>effect unless your stacking it full of RAM
>> and need the large mem support it will probably run slower on a 64bit 
>>install.
> 
> 
> 1) Please don't top post, and please trim your posts to just the bits 
>    relevant to your response.
> 
> 2) The Xeons in the Dell Poweredge 1850 are indeed 64bit CPUs, based on 
>    the same x86_64 technology that AMD introduced with their Opterons.
> 

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