[bf1942] Are you using the 64-bit server much?

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:36 PM +0100 Steven Hartland 
<killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:

> The figures we saw where:
> 1. a 32bit linux server requires 10% more CPU then a windows one
> 2. a 64bit linux server requires 5% more CPU than a 32bit linux one.
>
> This really pains me to say but with those figures we have had no
> option but to put 95% of our servers on windows :(

It would be useful to know which compilers, versions, and compiler switches 
were used for the 3 versions. I suspect that will have a lot more influence 
than kernel version.