[CentOS] 64-bit CentOS - your experience

Tim Nelson
2009-06-25T16:51:32Z

----- przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:
> Hello,
>
> one of our developers is developing his Web applications
> (PHP-based+MySql) on 64-bit Fedora. He would like to use the same,
> 64-bit environment on CentOS. I am not against 64-bits (we use it for
> many, many years using Solaris) but what concerns me is the stability
> of 64-bit Linux. Can you share your experience regarding stability of
> 32-bit and 64-bit CentOS ? Does anybody use 64-bit CentOS in
> production (web applications) environment ?
>
> Regards
> przemol
>

I run 64 bit CentOS (of varying 5.x flavors) with no problems whatsoever.
Stability is not a concern. To answer your question a bit more precisely, yes we
do run it in a production web app environment that has high loads and lots of
traffic. It just works.

--Tim