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>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200512122354.jBCNsl7s024279 LDM large queue Hi Paul, Mike Schmidt (the Unidata system administrator) talked this morning about how best to determine if your machine is running 64-bit CPUs. Neither of us know of a programatic way to determine this (there may be one, but we don't know what it is). However, the fact that your system (presumably a Dell) supports 12 GB of RAM strongly suggests that it is running Xeon EM64T processors. If this really is the case, you should strongly consider loading a 64-bit version of Linux (you run Debian, correct?) on the machine so you can best take advantage of its capabilities AND be able to build large (> 4 GB) LDM queues. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. >From address@hidden Wed Dec 14 09:39:44 2005 Thanks, I'm talking to our system admins about suppporting a 64 bit version of linux. Thanks again for all your help. -Paul