Audrey server -> should be ok on i386?

jvlcek jvlcek at redhat.com
Fri Jun 22 14:25:41 UTC 2012


On 06/22/2012 09:28 AM, Dan Radez wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 09:16 AM, Hugh Brock wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:39:58PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote:
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> Should Audrey's (config) server run ok on i386 hosts?
>>>
>>> Thinking that unlike other parts of the Aeolus stack - which we "advertise"
>>> as 64-bit only - Audrey probably doesn't have to be.
>>>
>>> Being able to run on i386 vs just x64 *might* help keep deployment costs
>>> minimised.
>>>
>>> Even though EC2 Micro instances can be either 32 or 64 bit, other cloud
>>> providers may be different. (no idea personally :>)
>> I can't think of any good reason it shouldn't run on either -- it's
>> just a webapp after all.
>>
>> We explicitly supported it only on 64-bit for product because the virt
>> platforms we support for product are all 64-bit only with the
>> exception of ec2 micro. But for upstream I see no reason we shouldn't
>> build it for both archs. If there's any special reason not to do that,
>> speak up now...
>>
>> --Hugh
>>
> Agreed, since it's ruby it should run on either arch. I'm not aware of
> anything arch specific that we've done.
>
> looping in Greg to be sure I'm not missing something.
> He's pto today so we probably won't hear back from him till monday.
>
> Radez
>

I haven't recently but quite a while ago I had spun up and run Config 
Server in i386 mode.

Not sure if anything has changes since that would prevent that but it 
had worked.

Joe



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