MailScanner on RHEL 3.2 AMD64

[Mark Nienberg]

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Stephen Swaney wrote:

>I just downgraded a Red Hat 3.0 x86_64 system because of perl problems after
>attempting to update to razor 2.75. I trying to troubleshoot the problem I
>came across references to others who had had similar problems with
>x86_64-linux perl. All I found was problems noted. No solutions that worked.
>
>
>I also noticed that the system was not substantially faster that an
>identical system that was running i686. 
>
>I don't know if the RH or CentOS x86_64-linux is more stable of faster but I
>can't recommend the 3.0 x86_64 OS.
>
>  
>
Is there an option to select the architecture during installation of 
Centos 4.1 or RHEL?  If so, would you recommend choosing the i686 
architecture on an AMD64 chip? Is there also an athlon choice or do 32 
bit athlons use the 686 architecure in recent kernels?

Mark Nienberg

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