Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?
From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/30/04
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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:12:38 -0600
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:00 +1300, Simon Buchanan wrote:
> Is there a benifit to running in 64bit mode? This is a mail server
> running postfix and DBmail.
AMD64 is faster at most all CPU-bound operations. SpamAssassin
tends to be CPU- and RAM-intensive, so maybe there would be some
benefit. (In benchmarks, AMD64 is never *slower* than Athlon XP,
but performs some benchmarks in the same amount of clock time.
And, of course, if you're going to use a lot of 4GB+ of RAM,
AMD64 is *the* way to go.
> Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:38:43 +1300, Simon Buchanan <nmc@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi There,
> >>
> >>I am just about to install sarge onto a dual xeon (Nocona 800MHz FSB)
> >>server... and just checking the kernel with 'atp-cache search
> >>kernel-image'. Im wanting to use the 2.6 kernel... so would this be the
> >>correct kernel-image?:
> >>
> >>kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on
> >>PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV.
> >
> >
> > If you'd run it in 32bit mode, yes. Since it's a dual processor, get
> > the SMP-enabled kernel
> >
> > If you're to run it in 64bit mode, you'd need to get the kernel
> > compiled with amd64-generic/ em64t support (preferrably the
> > SMP-enabled ones), then use the debian-amd64 port.
>
>
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