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mblakele
on March 12, 2009
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What caused that outage
Why was the site using a 32-bit environment to begin with? Opterons have been cheap for years now, and all new Xeons are capable of 64-bit operation.
MrRage
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What chip in put out in the last 2 years or so couldn't run a 64 bit system? I'm pretty sure most of the AMD chips could... Edit: By chip I mean one for a desktop CPU, e.g. Atom don't count.
lutorm
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Atom 330 is also 64-bit.
axod
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IDK if it's relevant, but 64bit can seriously suck also. If you use a lot of pointers, you just doubled the memory you need for each pointer.
In my experience, 64bit isn't a good way to save memory.
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