A few questions I can't find in archive...

[Stephen Swaney]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Dan Hollis
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:15 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: A few questions I can't find in archive...
>
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Nick Nelson wrote:
> > My first question is, anyone have any input on MS in a 64bit enviorment?
> >   I'll probably end up running it in 32bit anyhow, but
> > advantages/disadvantages?

It's my understanding that the Opteron chip has far better floating point
performance then the Titanium chip. This should greatly improve perl's
performance. Since MailScanner and SpamAssassin are written in perl, we
expect to see significant performance increases on the Opteron systems.
Running the 2.6 kernel on an Opteron system should show very significant
performance increases.

Steve
Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

> I cant think of any advantages to running it 64bit, it would likely be
> slower.
>
> -Dan
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