Fedora Core 2 AMD 64 Bit: good platform for heavy load mail server?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Sep 27 01:40:10 UTC 2004


Tobias Weisserth writes:

> Since I read about stability problems with 64bit Fedora Core 2 & 3 regarding 
> kernel memory leaks when running 32 bit applications I am wondering whether 
> Fedora is my distribution of choice for this job.

Since you will presumably compile your mail server code yourself, you'll end 
up with 64 bit applications, so this is a no-op.

> Has anybody high and constant load experiences with Fedora's 64bit 
> distribution?

Early FC 2 amd64 kernels were no good.  The updated 2.6.8-base kernel 
appears to be quite solid.

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