i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM
Jan Mikkelsen
janm at transactionware.com
Tue Jun 19 00:24:12 UTC 2007
Martin Turgeon wrote:
> ...
> I am facing a difficult decision. Should I use i386 with PAE
> enabled in
> the kernel (I read a lot of warnings using it) or should I go with
> AMD64? Which branch should I follow?
>
> These servers will be front-end/back-end MySQL(with replication) and
> Apache servers with BIND, Postfix, Dovecot, PF.
Looks like an easy decision to me.
You have source for all of those things, and they are known to work on
amd64. I suggest going amd64. There are many advantages in going amd64,
and the primary disadvantage of going amd64 is the inability to run some
(but not all) 32-bit binaries at the moment. I see no 32-bit binaries in
your list.
Regards,
Jan Mikkelsen.
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