<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/15/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Holden</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@mikeholden.org">mythtv@mikeholden.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Brad DerManouelian wrote:<br>> On May 14, 2008, at 8:08 PM, dcw wrote:<br>>> I am in the process of getting the components for a new computer for<br>
>> Mythtv.<br>>> On a x86_64 computer is there an significant advantage of using a<br>>> x86_64<br>>> version of Fedora over a i386 version of Fedora?<br>> I would say not. I have two AMD 64 boxes. One runs i386 (my production<br>
> box) and one runs x86_64 (dev) and I actually prefer i386 because it's<br>> easier to get stuff like Flash and StepMania running on i386. Myth<br>> doesn't get any benefit from running x86_64 that I have ever noticed.<br>
What about for a more general-purpose box that will be doing myth plus<br>some other stuff?</blockquote>
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<div>I run my mythbackend with x86_64 Fedora 8 - it's primary task is as a mythbackend (with encoding to h.264 taking a fair bit of its time), but it is also a general fileserver, zoneminder server, the occasional VM server. It's been good for that.</div>
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<div>I run my frontends on the 32 bit version of Fedora 8, because graphical/flash type things are more important to me than a marginal increase in speed.</div></div>