AMD x86-64 (AMD64) technology was designed in 2001 and
got into production in 2003. The hardware is good, but
I would never trust AMD64 software to run critical
server. It's just too new.
Even if it has no bugs at all, it is too early to run
AMD64 software for mission critical applications.
I think Geoffrin has 2GB of memory? In that case, we
needn't the 64bitness, since 32bit kernels work fine
with 2GB of memory. 64bit is needed when a machine has
more than 4GB RAM. I suppose that the extra
performance of AMD64 mode is not so required, so we
can downgrade to 32bit Linux/freebsd to be sure that
the problem is not from the AMD64 kernel.
--- Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
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)
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