[asterisk-users] New installation CentOS 4 x86 or X86_64

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:18 pm, Remco Barendse wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I have to do a new bare metal installation of a box running Asterisk with
> bristuff or vzaphfc.
>
> The box will be used as a really lightly loaded file server and pbx.
>
> Any advise on which architecture I should use? The cpu is a 64 bit capable
> AMD (the box is running x86_64 now) but is still suffering from echo on
> the BRI lines.
>
> Should I go with the normal x86 or the 64 bit x86_64 arch.?
>

x86-32 isn't as fun as x86_64, but it's fewer hassles. With 64-bit systems 
you'll run into the odd app or driver that hasn't been ported to 64-bit 
architectures yet. You can run 32-bit code on 64-bit systems in chroots, 
which I think is a horrid pain, but some folks don't mind. :)

The big advantage of a 64-bit system is being able to handle huge amounts of 
memory (over 4 gigabytes) and gigantic files (up to 4 exabytes, wheee!), 
which doesn't really apply to an Asterisk server.
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