15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
09:40
I've got Suse Enterprise Server 9 running on about 15 dual 64 bit Xeon and Opteron based machines. These are running high volume data base and web servers (often reach 70Mb/s of traffic) All I can say is that 64 bits really comes into its' own when there is very high traffic, a 32 bit solution runs out of steam quite quickly under these conditions. One of our larger clients want to migrate from Sun/SPARC to Suse/64bitXeon because of the massive cost savings and comparable performance. This wouldn't have been a consideration had Intel stayed 32 bit. just my $0.02 Matthew