22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
4:51 a.m.
jjbenham(a)chicagoguitar.com (Jeremiah Benham) writes:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Mario Lang
wrote:
Depends on how they want to communicate. Direct jack connects dont
work, so you can't run a 64-bit jack and connect a 32-bit jack app
to it. But OSC for instance works nice. I.e. I can run
SuperCollider the synth server in 64-bit mode, connect it to
64-bit jack, and run SuperCollider the language client in 32-bit
mode and make scsynth and sclang talk to each other via OSC.
Not really. You usually solve this issue by
either creating a 64-bit
chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base
system. These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't
work in 64-bit mode yet. We are using this method at work to make
32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it
works very well. I wouldn't call it confusing. Its actually very logical
as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept.
How do most of these audio applications behave in 64bit mode? If you
have applications that are running in a 32bit chroot can they
communicate with other applications in 64bit mode? I also wonder about price/performance ratio and ease
of administration.
Ignoring the fact that it make take a little extra work to get
everything to run smoothly do you find that the performace is worth the
price of x86-64 compared to say athlon xp?
Our Dual-Opteron machine is soo damn fast I couldnt believe
it at first. We're having internal jokes that AMD is a problem
for sysadmins, since one doesn't even find the time to get a coffee
anymore :-).. OTOH, I am probably biased since I only worked with
Opteron so far which as I understand it performs quite a bit better
than its smaller brothers...
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CYa,
Mario