<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Todd,<div><br></div><div>It's been several years, but I'm remembering something on the order of 30 minutes to a couple hours.</div><div><br></div><div>From my understanding the system needs to essentially convert all the db files.</div><div><br></div><div>You could possibly clone off the file system and check the timing, though that may be more trouble than</div><div>it's worth.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br><div><div><br></div><div>On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Todd Ruskell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<br><br>We're moving from 32-bit to 64-bit, and are trying to schedule an<br>appropriate amount of downtime. How long can I expect the database<br>conversion to take? It seems I've got about 100,000 files to convert.<br> Are we talking 30 minutes? A couple hours? 8 hours? 24 hours? I<br>know it depends on the hardware, but what have others experienced?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Todd<br>--<br>Todd Ruskell, Ph.D. Phone: 303-384-2080<br>Senior Lecturer in Physics Fax: 303-273-3919<br>Colorado School of Mines<br>Golden, CO 80401<br>_______________________________________________<br>LON-CAPA-admin mailing list<br><a href="mailto:LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">LON-CAPA-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a><br>http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Mark Lucas<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>email: <a href="mailto:lucasm@ohiou.edu">lucasm@ohiou.edu</a><br>252D Clippinger Lab<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>phone: (740)597-2984<br>Department of Physics and Astronomy<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>fax: (740)593-0433<br>Ohio University<br>Athens, OH 45701</div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>