CentOS - Jan 2006 - CentOS x64 on non-64 bit systems

In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems.  Would
the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems?  What kind of impact
would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?

> In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems.  Would
> the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems?  What kind of impact
> would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?
Immense impact, I'd venture to guess performance would drop by about 100%.

(In other words it wouldn't even boot)

Cheers,
MaZe.

On 1/10/06, Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In our environment, we have a mixture of 32 and 64 bit systems.  Would
> the 64-bit CentOS flavor work 32 bit systems?  What kind of impact
> would this have on performance if the 64-bit OS on 32-bit hardware?
It doesn't go this way. You can use the 32bit version on the x86_64
systems, but not the x86_64 on the 32bit machines. The installer for
the 64bit version should bitch about not supporting LONG, and then
refuse to do anything other than reboot.

--
Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center