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I tuned out at

    I actually have a 64-bit kernel, but a 32-bit userspace

Eevee right there decided to swim upstream. If you play computers on hard mode, it's gonna be hard.

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Why should that cause any issues? I run 32-bit applications (built against a 32-bit libc) on my 64-bit machine (with 64-bit kernel) all the time.

This has never caused any problems before. I'd actually completely forgotten about it until RVM or Ruby or RubyGems (I haven't decided yet who to blame) choked.

And it wasn't my choice — I started out 32-bit to save RAM on what used to be a fairly dinky plan. Some years later, Linode said I oughta switch to a 64-bit kernel for some obscure reason I can't remember.

Its a cloud server, just install a new one, copy your data over and you are done. It is not a long term investment.

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