On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:38:06PM +0200, Vladimir Ivashchenko wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 10:28 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > I changed the kernel to 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686 and so far it is stable. > > > > > > x64 will be the next step. i686 is what our guys install by default, I didn't bother to reinstall it. > > > > > > > In spite of the theoretical benefits of 64 bit, I find that the > > advantages are "measurable but not noticeable" for most things. The lack > > of 64 bit versions of some applications was a problem for me, but may > > not be for you. I did find that even building from source not all > > applications worked right, or worked at all, or in some cases compiled. :-( > > More or less this is our experience also, but this box will only be used > as a file-server. > > Does anybody know if software RAID benefits when being run in 64-bit ? I think it may. IO buffer copying may be twice as fast. Some statistics on IO, including network traffic can be measured when it goes beyound about 100 Mbit/s - tehere are some counters that would overflow 32 bit. best regards keld -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
