[Kolab-devel] x86_64

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Stéphane Konstantaropoulos <skonstant at sgul.ac.uk> writes:

> We are going to set up Kolab on new servers here, running 64 bit 
> distributions, I still have not been able to build Kolab (latest 2.1) for 64 
> bit. Some perl packages that contain x86 asm still configure themselves to 
> compile for x86, which generates errors.

I know of two larger installations that installed Kolab on Gentoo on
64bit.

Both had the same problem once they went into production: The cyrus
lmtp process died frequently leaving the system unable to deliver
e-mails anymore. I did have access to one of the servers and was
unable to reproduce the problem once we removed the users from the
machine. And I did put a very high load onto the mail processing
machinery. I was unable to identify the origin of the problem and my
guess was that it was related to running on 64bit. It might also be a
specific Gentoo problem. Did anybody experience a similar problem?

The two discussions around the problem happened on the project forum
and there is also an open bug:

http://forum.pardus.de/index.php?topic=27.0

http://bug.pardus.de/view.php?id=72

So I'm really interested in hearing more about 64bit experiments.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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