On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 03:42:01PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote: > Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > >Excuses if I sent a previous email on that subject not to the list or to > >the wrong addressees. Here again: > > > >We will be receiving a 64bit server with two Intel Xeons E5365 (3GHz) > >and 32 GB of RAM soon and I would like to run a 64bit OS, preferably > >SL on it. > > > >Anyone of CERN here on list list who could give recommendations on this list (this should have read) > >as I know that some machines at CERN run a 64 bit OS. and a question mark at the and of this sentence. (sorry for the typos) > > What are your concerns? My concerns were if SL x runs optimally on a pair of these quad core processors or whether some tweaking would be required. And as someone already said, the kernel should be adapted. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de