On Feb 16, 2004, at 05:08, Alwin Meschede wrote:
You also would have to recompile MySQL for 64 bit in
order to use
more than 2 GB RAM -->
MySQL provides handy precompiled binaries for AMD64. :)
need to install a complete 64 bit toolchain and
whatnot... I think it
would be easier if you start from scratch by installing a pure 64 bit
distro, but that would mean downtime. We should wait with this until
the other Opteron is in place.
Yes, that's my preference; no big rush.
The SuSE that came with Geoffrin and Gunther seemed functional enough
(geoffrin's memory problems aside), perhaps we could install a second
copy of that when we've got the opportunity.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)