Para as diferenças entre i686 e x86_64 podem ser lidas nesta página;
link
Eu acho que você definitivamente entende por que você deve usar 32 bits.
Eu trago de volta à vida uma máquina desktop bastante antiga (como eu acho) que era usada como servidor. No processo de revisão de hardware e software e tropeçar em um fato eu não sei qual versão do Ubuntu Server optar por atualizá-lo. No começo eu sinto que deve ser Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (32 bits), mas as coisas começam a brincar com a minha mente em breve.
> free -g
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3 0 2 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 0 3
Swap: 2 0 2
> getconf LONG_BIT
32
> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
> uname -a
Linux aristarhys-server 4.4.0-45-generic #66~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 15:07:39 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
> lscpu
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 15
Model: 4
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 3200.000
BogoMIPS: 6431.01
L1d cache: 16K
L2 cache: 2048K
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 4
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 3
microcode : 0x5
cpu MHz : 3200.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 5
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr
bugs :
bogomips : 6431.01
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> lshw -c cpu
*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 4
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.4.3
serial: 0000-0F43-0000-0000-0000-0000
slot: Socket 775
size: 3200MHz
capacity: 4GHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 200MHz
capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx x86-64 constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est cid cx16 xtpr cpufreq
configuration: id=1
*-logicalcpu:0
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.1
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
*-logicalcpu:1
description: Logical CPU
physical id: 1.2
width: 64 bits
capabilities: logical
cpuid
CPU 0:
vendor_id = "GenuineIntel"
version information (1/eax):
processor type = primary processor (0)
family = Intel Pentium 4/Pentium D/Pentium Extreme Edition/Celeron/Xeon/Xeon MP/Itanium2, AMD Athlon 64/Athlon XP-M/Opteron/Sempron/Turion (15)
model = 0x4 (4)
stepping id = 0x3 (3)
extended family = 0x0 (0)
extended model = 0x0 (0)
(simple synth) = Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott N0) / Xeon (Nocona N0 / Irwindale N0), 90nm
miscellaneous (1/ebx):
process local APIC physical ID = 0x0 (0)
cpu count = 0x2 (2)
CLFLUSH line size = 0x8 (8)
brand index = 0x0 (0)
brand id = 0x00 (0): unknown
feature information (1/edx):
x87 FPU on chip = true
virtual-8086 mode enhancement = true
debugging extensions = true
page size extensions = true
time stamp counter = true
RDMSR and WRMSR support = true
physical address extensions = true
machine check exception = true
CMPXCHG8B inst. = true
APIC on chip = true
SYSENTER and SYSEXIT = true
memory type range registers = true
PTE global bit = true
machine check architecture = true
conditional move/compare instruction = true
page attribute table = true
page size extension = true
processor serial number = false
CLFLUSH instruction = true
debug store = true
thermal monitor and clock ctrl = true
MMX Technology = true
FXSAVE/FXRSTOR = true
SSE extensions = true
SSE2 extensions = true
self snoop = true
hyper-threading / multi-core supported = true
therm. monitor = true
IA64 = false
pending break event = true
feature information (1/ecx):
PNI/SSE3: Prescott New Instructions = true
PCLMULDQ instruction = false
64-bit debug store = true
MONITOR/MWAIT = true
CPL-qualified debug store = true
VMX: virtual machine extensions = false
SMX: safer mode extensions = false
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology = true
thermal monitor 2 = false
SSSE3 extensions = false
context ID: adaptive or shared L1 data = true
FMA instruction = false
CMPXCHG16B instruction = true
xTPR disable = true
perfmon and debug = false
process context identifiers = false
direct cache access = false
SSE4.1 extensions = false
SSE4.2 extensions = false
extended xAPIC support = false
MOVBE instruction = false
POPCNT instruction = false
time stamp counter deadline = false
AES instruction = false
XSAVE/XSTOR states = false
OS-enabled XSAVE/XSTOR = false
AVX: advanced vector extensions = false
F16C half-precision convert instruction = false
RDRAND instruction = false
hypervisor guest status = false
cache and TLB information (2):
0x50: instruction TLB: 4K & 2M/4M pages, 64 entries
0x5b: data TLB: 4K & 4M pages, 64 entries
0x60: L1 data cache: 16K, 8-way, 64 byte lines
0x40: No L3 cache
0x70: Trace cache: 12K-uop, 8-way
0x7d: L2 cache: 2M, 8-way, sectored, 64 byte lines
processor serial number: 0000-0F43-0000-0000-0000-0000
deterministic cache parameters (4):
--- cache 0 ---
cache type = data cache (1)
cache level = 0x1 (1)
self-initializing cache level = true
fully associative cache = false
extra threads sharing this cache = 0x1 (1)
extra processor cores on this die = 0x0 (0)
system coherency line size = 0x3f (63)
physical line partitions = 0x0 (0)
ways of associativity = 0x7 (7)
WBINVD/INVD behavior on lower caches = false
inclusive to lower caches = false
complex cache indexing = false
number of sets - 1 (s) = 31
--- cache 1 ---
cache type = unified cache (3)
cache level = 0x2 (2)
self-initializing cache level = true
fully associative cache = false
extra threads sharing this cache = 0x1 (1)
extra processor cores on this die = 0x0 (0)
system coherency line size = 0x3f (63)
physical line partitions = 0x1 (1)
ways of associativity = 0x7 (7)
WBINVD/INVD behavior on lower caches = false
inclusive to lower caches = false
complex cache indexing = false
number of sets - 1 (s) = 2047
MONITOR/MWAIT (5):
smallest monitor-line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
largest monitor-line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
enum of Monitor-MWAIT exts supported = false
supports intrs as break-event for MWAIT = false
number of C0 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C1 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C2 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C3 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C4 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C5 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C6 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C7 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
extended feature flags (0x80000001/edx):
SYSCALL and SYSRET instructions = false
execution disable = true
1-GB large page support = false
RDTSCP = false
64-bit extensions technology available = true
Intel feature flags (0x80000001/ecx):
LAHF/SAHF supported in 64-bit mode = false
LZCNT advanced bit manipulation = false
3DNow! PREFETCH/PREFETCHW instructions = false
brand = " Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz"
L1 TLB/cache information: 2M/4M pages & L1 TLB (0x80000005/eax):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = 0x0 (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = 0x0 (0)
L1 TLB/cache information: 4K pages & L1 TLB (0x80000005/ebx):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = 0x0 (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = 0x0 (0)
L1 data cache information (0x80000005/ecx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 0x0 (0)
size (Kb) = 0x0 (0)
L1 instruction cache information (0x80000005/edx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 0x0 (0)
size (Kb) = 0x0 (0)
L2 TLB/cache information: 2M/4M pages & L2 TLB (0x80000006/eax):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = L2 off (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = L2 off (0)
L2 TLB/cache information: 4K pages & L2 TLB (0x80000006/ebx):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = L2 off (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = L2 off (0)
L2 unified cache information (0x80000006/ecx):
line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 8-way (6)
size (Kb) = 0x800 (2048)
L3 cache information (0x80000006/edx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = L2 off (0)
size (in 512Kb units) = 0x0 (0)
Advanced Power Management Features (0x80000007/edx):
temperature sensing diode = false
frequency ID (FID) control = false
voltage ID (VID) control = false
thermal trip (TTP) = false
thermal monitor (TM) = false
software thermal control (STC) = false
100 MHz multiplier control = false
hardware P-State control = false
TscInvariant = false
Physical Address and Linear Address Size (0x80000008/eax):
maximum physical address bits = 0x24 (36)
maximum linear (virtual) address bits = 0x30 (48)
maximum guest physical address bits = 0x0 (0)
Logical CPU cores (0x80000008/ecx):
number of CPU cores - 1 = 0x0 (0)
ApicIdCoreIdSize = 0x0 (0)
(multi-processing synth): hyper-threaded (t=2)
(multi-processing method): Intel leaf 1/4
(APIC widths synth): CORE_width=0 SMT_width=1
(APIC synth): PKG_ID=0 CORE_ID=0 SMT_ID=0
(synth) = Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott N0), 90nm
CPU 1:
vendor_id = "GenuineIntel"
version information (1/eax):
processor type = primary processor (0)
family = Intel Pentium 4/Pentium D/Pentium Extreme Edition/Celeron/Xeon/Xeon MP/Itanium2, AMD Athlon 64/Athlon XP-M/Opteron/Sempron/Turion (15)
model = 0x4 (4)
stepping id = 0x3 (3)
extended family = 0x0 (0)
extended model = 0x0 (0)
(simple synth) = Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott N0) / Xeon (Nocona N0 / Irwindale N0), 90nm
miscellaneous (1/ebx):
process local APIC physical ID = 0x1 (1)
cpu count = 0x2 (2)
CLFLUSH line size = 0x8 (8)
brand index = 0x0 (0)
brand id = 0x00 (0): unknown
feature information (1/edx):
x87 FPU on chip = true
virtual-8086 mode enhancement = true
debugging extensions = true
page size extensions = true
time stamp counter = true
RDMSR and WRMSR support = true
physical address extensions = true
machine check exception = true
CMPXCHG8B inst. = true
APIC on chip = true
SYSENTER and SYSEXIT = true
memory type range registers = true
PTE global bit = true
machine check architecture = true
conditional move/compare instruction = true
page attribute table = true
page size extension = true
processor serial number = false
CLFLUSH instruction = true
debug store = true
thermal monitor and clock ctrl = true
MMX Technology = true
FXSAVE/FXRSTOR = true
SSE extensions = true
SSE2 extensions = true
self snoop = true
hyper-threading / multi-core supported = true
therm. monitor = true
IA64 = false
pending break event = true
feature information (1/ecx):
PNI/SSE3: Prescott New Instructions = true
PCLMULDQ instruction = false
64-bit debug store = true
MONITOR/MWAIT = true
CPL-qualified debug store = true
VMX: virtual machine extensions = false
SMX: safer mode extensions = false
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology = true
thermal monitor 2 = false
SSSE3 extensions = false
context ID: adaptive or shared L1 data = true
FMA instruction = false
CMPXCHG16B instruction = true
xTPR disable = true
perfmon and debug = false
process context identifiers = false
direct cache access = false
SSE4.1 extensions = false
SSE4.2 extensions = false
extended xAPIC support = false
MOVBE instruction = false
POPCNT instruction = false
time stamp counter deadline = false
AES instruction = false
XSAVE/XSTOR states = false
OS-enabled XSAVE/XSTOR = false
AVX: advanced vector extensions = false
F16C half-precision convert instruction = false
RDRAND instruction = false
hypervisor guest status = false
cache and TLB information (2):
0x50: instruction TLB: 4K & 2M/4M pages, 64 entries
0x5b: data TLB: 4K & 4M pages, 64 entries
0x60: L1 data cache: 16K, 8-way, 64 byte lines
0x40: No L3 cache
0x70: Trace cache: 12K-uop, 8-way
0x7d: L2 cache: 2M, 8-way, sectored, 64 byte lines
processor serial number: 0000-0F43-0000-0000-0000-0000
deterministic cache parameters (4):
--- cache 0 ---
cache type = data cache (1)
cache level = 0x1 (1)
self-initializing cache level = true
fully associative cache = false
extra threads sharing this cache = 0x1 (1)
extra processor cores on this die = 0x0 (0)
system coherency line size = 0x3f (63)
physical line partitions = 0x0 (0)
ways of associativity = 0x7 (7)
WBINVD/INVD behavior on lower caches = false
inclusive to lower caches = false
complex cache indexing = false
number of sets - 1 (s) = 31
--- cache 1 ---
cache type = unified cache (3)
cache level = 0x2 (2)
self-initializing cache level = true
fully associative cache = false
extra threads sharing this cache = 0x1 (1)
extra processor cores on this die = 0x0 (0)
system coherency line size = 0x3f (63)
physical line partitions = 0x1 (1)
ways of associativity = 0x7 (7)
WBINVD/INVD behavior on lower caches = false
inclusive to lower caches = false
complex cache indexing = false
number of sets - 1 (s) = 2047
MONITOR/MWAIT (5):
smallest monitor-line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
largest monitor-line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
enum of Monitor-MWAIT exts supported = false
supports intrs as break-event for MWAIT = false
number of C0 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C1 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C2 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C3 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C4 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C5 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C6 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
number of C7 sub C-states using MWAIT = 0x0 (0)
extended feature flags (0x80000001/edx):
SYSCALL and SYSRET instructions = false
execution disable = true
1-GB large page support = false
RDTSCP = false
64-bit extensions technology available = true
Intel feature flags (0x80000001/ecx):
LAHF/SAHF supported in 64-bit mode = false
LZCNT advanced bit manipulation = false
3DNow! PREFETCH/PREFETCHW instructions = false
brand = " Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz"
L1 TLB/cache information: 2M/4M pages & L1 TLB (0x80000005/eax):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = 0x0 (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = 0x0 (0)
L1 TLB/cache information: 4K pages & L1 TLB (0x80000005/ebx):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = 0x0 (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = 0x0 (0)
L1 data cache information (0x80000005/ecx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 0x0 (0)
size (Kb) = 0x0 (0)
L1 instruction cache information (0x80000005/edx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 0x0 (0)
size (Kb) = 0x0 (0)
L2 TLB/cache information: 2M/4M pages & L2 TLB (0x80000006/eax):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = L2 off (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = L2 off (0)
L2 TLB/cache information: 4K pages & L2 TLB (0x80000006/ebx):
instruction # entries = 0x0 (0)
instruction associativity = L2 off (0)
data # entries = 0x0 (0)
data associativity = L2 off (0)
L2 unified cache information (0x80000006/ecx):
line size (bytes) = 0x40 (64)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = 8-way (6)
size (Kb) = 0x800 (2048)
L3 cache information (0x80000006/edx):
line size (bytes) = 0x0 (0)
lines per tag = 0x0 (0)
associativity = L2 off (0)
size (in 512Kb units) = 0x0 (0)
Advanced Power Management Features (0x80000007/edx):
temperature sensing diode = false
frequency ID (FID) control = false
voltage ID (VID) control = false
thermal trip (TTP) = false
thermal monitor (TM) = false
software thermal control (STC) = false
100 MHz multiplier control = false
hardware P-State control = false
TscInvariant = false
Physical Address and Linear Address Size (0x80000008/eax):
maximum physical address bits = 0x24 (36)
maximum linear (virtual) address bits = 0x30 (48)
maximum guest physical address bits = 0x0 (0)
Logical CPU cores (0x80000008/ecx):
number of CPU cores - 1 = 0x0 (0)
ApicIdCoreIdSize = 0x0 (0)
(multi-processing synth): hyper-threaded (t=2)
(multi-processing method): Intel leaf 1/4
(APIC widths synth): CORE_width=0 SMT_width=1
(APIC synth): PKG_ID=0 CORE_ID=0 SMT_ID=1
(synth) = Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott N0), 90nm
Bits importantes (na minha opinião)
O 1-4 é uma boa indicação dos recursos do sistema x64, mas o ponto 5 está me dizendo o que eu não posso virtualizar sistemas guest x64 ( link ), e o ponto 8 está me dizendo que é o sistema operacional de 32 bits aqui.
Então qual servidor Ubuntu devo escolher para uma atualização? Minha máquina é capaz de executar o sistema operacional de 64 bits? Ou devo ficar com 32 bits?
Para as diferenças entre i686 e x86_64 podem ser lidas nesta página;
link
Eu acho que você definitivamente entende por que você deve usar 32 bits.
O seu deve definitivamente usar 32 bits, ou seja, versões i386 do software aplicativo e do sistema operacional. O i686 não é um computador de 64 bits explícito. é uma versão posterior do i386, ou seja, computadores Intel 8, 16 e 32 bits