Nagios on 64bit Linux

[Dack Anderson]

I have the plugins and nrpe running on two SGI Altix hosts and it works 
just fine. nagios itself builds fine as 64-bit, can't say that I've run it 
as that though.


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Webster, Stuart SITI-ITDIUR wrote:

> Hi Dan
> 
> The Itanium2 is not just for Nagios but for another purpose. The idea was to also have Nagios on it to monitor some local services. And someone mentioned to me that it wouldnt run too well on 64bit
> 
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Stromberg [mailto:strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu]
> Sent: 06 October 2003 19:18
> To: Webster, Stuart SITI-ITDIUR
> Cc: Dan Stromberg; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on 64bit Linux
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 06:12, Webster, Stuart SITI-ITDIUR wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a quick question. Does anyone know if Nagios will run ok on 64
> > bit Linux on an Itanium2, im hearing it might not run well on a 64 bit
> > machine.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Stuart Webster
> 
> My question is, why would you want to?  Itaniums are expensive boxes. 
> Nagios performs fine for us on a pentium 3 monitoring about 300 hosts. 
> If you actually need more hosts than a 32 bit system can handle, you
> could easily buy multiple 32 bit systems, and then have the added
> benefit of having one nagios host check up on the other, and vice
> versa.  I saw a 32 bit system for $127.99 today.  I'd save the itanium
> for compute-bound tasks, and even then, it might be better to go AMD.
> 
> 

-- 
Dack



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