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"Stephen J. Gowdy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen J. Gowdy
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:36:13 -0800
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There are lot of such machines in heavy use at SLAC with the 32bit versino
of RHEL3.

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> Mark Nelson said...
>
> |I'm about to purchase a couple of new systems, my supplier can only
> |supply me with a AMD 64 (this is due to a couple of hardware
> |computability issues), can I run the 32 bit version of SL4 on a AMD 64,
> |I know I'll take a performance hit but I'm not that bothered about that.
> | Can anyone see any issues?
>
> We didn't do extensive testing, but I once
> installed SL304 32 bit on a dual Opteron
> system, and it ran fine for a day or so.
> I only realized the problem when I went to
> install a 64 bit RPM and the delependency
> checker went berserk. 8^/
>

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