Re: i386 or x86_64 installation

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Matt wrote:

back I see is the max RAM on i386 but perhaps I am wrong.  90 percent
of our CPU load is Spamassassin.  Disk I/O is likely a big bottle neck

Are you using spamd?

I ask, because me mate's system was rather busy, and it transpired he wasn't.


Other than extra RAM, AMD-64 CPUs have more registers, and they work best with 64-bit code, so for CPU-intensive work you should see better performance with 64-bit Linux than with 32-bit.

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Cheers
John

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