[CentOS] i386 or x86_64 installation
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 22 22:17:29 UTC 2007
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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Cheers
John
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