On 31/05/2010 14:58, D4rKr0W wrote: > I have run my gameservers on a rootserver for months now and i find > myself having to reset the server due to some messed up update (don't > ask). I wanted to ask you guys for advice, since i have the possibility > to choose between a 32 bit image and a 64 bit one for debian stable, > which i will be using to run the gameservers and a small webserver for > my community sites. > > The machine has plenty of horsepower for my small needs, it's an i7 920 > with 8gb of ram and 2 750 SATA2 drives in mirroring. > > I noticed a small decrease of performance once installing hlxce on the > two l4d1 servers i had running, my community consists of competitive > players so they're a little bitchy about hit reg, but l4d2 servers were > pretty much fine. > > I am really tempted on trying out the performance on a 64bit setup, a > colleague of mine said to me it runs just fine and there are not any > compatibility issues that i should worry about, except for those 32bit > libs which i need to install. Is there anything i should take into > account before installing the 64bit OS? How is your experience on it? >
I'd definitely run 64-bit Linux on any hardware that's new enough to be able to run it, especially machines with 4GB or more of RAM. The main advantage of 64-bit is that the OS can much more easily use all the memory in the system without having to jump through hoops. The performance gains aren't huge by any means, and most likely you won't even notice them at all, but things do run a bit better. Any 32-bit software runs just fine as well as long as you make sure that you have the right libraries. I'm running 5x L4D1, 7x L4D2 and a TF2 server on a 64-bit Debian Lenny server with 12GB RAM. It works a treat. Have fun, Chris _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
