Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:05:56 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> Cc: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>, "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) Message-ID: <4577E784.605@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4577E545.60803@unsane.co.uk> References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> <4577E545.60803@unsane.co.uk>
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Vince wrote: > Frank Bonnet wrote: >> Peter A. Giessel wrote: >> >>> It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been >>> asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by >>> searching the archives. >>> >>> If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might >>> be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, >>> however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports >>> that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm >>> running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, >>> Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, >>> 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. >> Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its >> configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead >> of sendmail ) >> it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 >> >> I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped >> with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but >> I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that >> will be integrated in 6.2 ... >> >> If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never >> did >> that but there is probably a way to do it :-) >> > > you could try installing from the RC-1 images if your impatient. (ISOs > in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 on your favorite mirror) > Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince > Vince >> Thanks again > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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