On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Alan Sparks<asparks at doublesparks.net> wrote: > 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 >> >> > We had just started retooling Web servers to 64bit (overcoming some > 32bit limitations in 3rd-party stuff). We had run 64bit on almost > everything else before (few thousand production systems). There was no > issue of stability in 64-vs-32 bit. For the Web servers, we found it > might actually be more stable in the environment compared to 32bit, due > to differences in memory management in the 64bit environment. Of > course, you should test in your circumstance - but I (and others here) > have positive experiences. > -Alan > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I installed all my newer servers (those capable of 64bit that is) with Centos 5 x86_64, including xen domains. Works like a charm!