Re: [Nolug] Why AMD64?

From: Brett D. Estrade <estrabd_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:37:20 -0500
Message-Id: <1112639840.30875.231085274@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Well, whatever it is, a 64 bit processor is not going to help.

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:39:07 -0500 (CDT), "Brad Bendily" <brad@selu.edu>
said:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
>
> > Is this using the AMD64 as the client or server? I honestly don't see
> > any benefit that 64 bit would add to serving files, especially since the
> > bottleneck would defitely be the speed of the network.
>
> I would think a serious bottleneck would be hard drive speed.
> Unless you have a large SAN.
>
> BB
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