[freeside-users] OS and CPU

[Ivan Kohler]

On 4/26/2017 6:32 PM, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 06:32:03PM -0400, Blair Davis wrote:
> > Can Freeside live happily on a 32bit CPU and OS?
> Technically, yes.  Nothing in our codebase requires a 64 bit CPU or OS.
> [...]
> FWIW, most of our customers are running on 64 bit systems.  We have a
> small handful left on leagcy 32 bit systems and are actively migrating
> them to 64 bit installs.


Keeping this on-topic with regard to Freeside rather than general 
discussion about the usefulness or elecricity cost of obsolete hardware 
(the majority of ours were VMs or inadvertent installs on 64-bit capable 
hardware anyway):

We've completed several migrations as part of our Debian 8 uprgrades and 
just have a couple left on 32 bit installs.

We'll shortly be phasing out testing of 3.x versions in 32 bit 
environments.  We don't test 4.x on 32 bits.

If you're using our Debian repo, although none of the Perl moudles are 
current architecture-specific, we aren't going to avoid new dependencies 
that might be, maintain a 32 build environment, build or host them in 
our repo.


As I said, as a Perl/SQL web application, Freeside itself is 
architecture independent, and we're not planning on changing that.

But, especially if if using our Deb repo (or building one based on it 
for Ubuntu), going with 32 bit for a new implementation today does carry 
some risk of neding additional maintenance work in the future.


Hope that helps you decide.


-- 
Ivan Kohler
President and Head Geek, Freeside Internet Services, Inc.  http://freeside.biz/
Debian GNU/Linux developer  |  CPAN author  |  cat person  |  ski addict