AMD64 I386 or X64 load?

[James Gray]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:18 am, stan wrote:
> I just discovered that I grabbed the wrong set of CD's yesterday and loaded
> the I386 set on my dual processor, dual core Opteron machine (Sun Ultra
> 40).
>
> I then downloaded the latest 2.16 kernel and built a custom kernel for this
> machine, setting the processor type correctly in the kernel config.
>
> How much performance penalty should I expect, if I don't reload the correct
> binaries?

Pretty significant considering an AMD64 kernel wont grok 32bit libs.  IOW, it 
probably wont boot.  Install the 64bit kernel and libs and you'll be all set.

Cheers,

James
-- 
I have a rock garden.  Last week three of them died.
		-- Richard Diran
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