Running inn under 64x.

[Bill Davidsen]

newsmaster at alkar.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any advantage running inn under 64x OS? We are going to start
> news server on machine with 4 Gb RAM and Intel processors with EM64T
> support. We try to run 32-bit OS (FreeBSD) and in such configuration
> about 400 Mb of RAM remains unused. Is there any another advantages
> running inn under amd64 version of FreeBSD except these 400 Mb of RAM?
> Or it's better to run old good 32x and forget about piece of memory?
>   

I haven't seen that with Linux, so I can't guess, 32 bit Linux supports 
up to 64GB RAM. I would think that there's no reason not to run 64bit, 
other than the stability of the o/s with a less common port. I would 
expect any problems to show up quickly.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979