Re: Dual Xeon Kernel?

From: Simon Buchanan (nmc_at_orcon.net.nz)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:51:20 +1300
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    Yep.. But the server i have is a dual xeon. Which is *NOT* 64bit -
    right? Are you saying that the AMD64 is faster as an alternative for the
    xeon?

    Ron Johnson wrote:
    > 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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