> > I also considered going to 64 bit. What flavor of linux are you using? I > > know you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same machine. > > That is unless you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit libc installed. That > > seems confusing as if you are just asking for trouble. > > Not really. You usually solve this issue by either creating a 64-bit > chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base > system. These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't > work in 64-bit mode yet. We are using this method at work to make > 32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it > works very well. I wouldn't call it confusing. Its actually very logical > as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept. Minor correction: You can't run 64 bit executables in a 32 bit environment. The kernel must be running in 64 bit mode.
