On Dec 26, 2003, at 16:33, Nikos-Optim wrote:
I agree that currently a 32bit operating system is
better for production use on AMD Opteron CPUs.
When I first learnt that Geoffrin uses 64bit Linux I
was very surprised. I really don't understand why
Geoffrin was set up to work in 64bit mode, since it is
a production machine and stability is a critical
issue, so we should use 32bit Linux (or freebsd).
My understanding is that the system shipped with SuSE Professional 8.1
for AMD64 preinstalled. If that's not production ready, somebody should
really tell Penguin Computing that they're shipping broken goods.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)