x86_64 or i386?
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Aug 18 11:21:40 UTC 2006
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:01:10AM +0200, Roger wrote:
> I installed FC5 x86_64 to run Qmail on it and the consequences were
> disastrous, every 4-7 days the machine kept going down, i was losing
What was causing the machine to go down? I know the unpatched version of
Qmail isn't 64-bit clean, but that shouldn't bring down the whole system.
> in my opinion i386 is much better as for x86_64, a lot of people are
> still experimenting and you would just be asking for trouble if you make
> this into a production server
All decent server software should be 64-bit clean for years now. This
shouldn't be an issue.
But really, you're tempting fate to use any version Fedora on a production
server. If you need free, CentOS fills this part of the ecosystem.
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