> > I also considered going to 64 bit. What flavor of linux are you using? I
> > know you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same machine.
> > That is unless you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit libc installed. That
> > seems confusing as if you are just asking for trouble.
>
> Not really. You usually solve this issue by either creating a 64-bit
> chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base
> system. These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't
> work in 64-bit mode yet. We are using this method at work to make
> 32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it
> works very well. I wouldn't call it confusing. Its actually very logical
> as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept.
Minor correction:
You can't run 64 bit executables in a 32 bit environment. The kernel
must be running in 64 bit mode.
Received on Tue Mar 22 04:15:34 2005
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