CentOS

[quote] TrevorH wrote: For DRBD you know that you probably need a pair of server for each DRBD device. At least, when I ran it, I could never work out a way of having it run on two server with an active DRBD device on each of the pair of servers with failover for each being on the other server. So i...

[quote] TrevorH wrote: 32 bit apps will only address a maximum of 4GB of virtual address space whichever choice you make. On the 64 bit system they're likely to actually be able to get around 3.7GB and on a PAE system that will be less, perhaps only 2.7GB. OTOH, the 64 bit system and apps is likely ...

Hi All I'm a newbee to CentOS and am looking to build 2 high-availability servers: 1 running LAMP and DRDB and 1 running a mail server using DRDB. We will need to have > 4GB of RAM to ensure we don?t run out of memory in the longer term. Apart from ensuring the processors support PAE what are the pr...

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TrevorH wrote:
If it just runs things like `yum install httpd` then it'll probably work without modification.[/quote]

Thanks Trev.

Yes it does run that way. Will the 64-bit OS be detected by yum and the 64-bit apps be downloaded as opposed to the 32-bit versions?

Cheers

Hi all I'm a newbee to Linux and could do with some advice. I've written a script that downloads via yum all LAMP components for CentOS 5.5 32-bit and need to mod it as we're now running CentOS 5.5 64-bit. What modifications do I need to do to the script to ensure that yum downloads the LAMP 64-bit ...

Hi I'm looking to setup a high-availability server using Apache & MySQL using CentOS 5.5 64-bit (for > 4GB RAM). As far as I?m aware I have 2 options: either a clustered server with shared storage or DRDB. I?m researching the pros and cons of the 2 approaches and would be grateful for any feedback! ...