From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 20:00:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F4A16A4DE for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12F043D45 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:00:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so803831wxd for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ck8bYJdw/GeD/4xXuWY7rHtyTFv8oz2gzyYND/A5C8VqIc9Q3N6y/6+NtXBrvmHCm3pbDWAsFIoEO9d4TORdnylj83DclLhGxIALJkVRggj5875rrG4ozURHn1jnEnaTC4ZanMOpJhjy7Q6VmkGc10RYeonK0i0rX/ZLaPN304U= Received: by 10.70.15.15 with SMTP id 15mr5331772wxo; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:00:08 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Jerry McAllister" In-Reply-To: <200608181731.k7IHVNdA019498@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44E5F458.1070606@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <200608181731.k7IHVNdA019498@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Robin Becker , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 64 3000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:00:09 -0000 On 8/18/06, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We > > are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant > > to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? > > What are you doing that would make that seem slow? > Are you sure it is the processor and not some other > part that is the bottleneck, such as disk or NIC or > your pipe to the outside world (ISP)? > He's probably running a big PHP web app... If so try eaccelerator first, it's in ports under www/eaccelerator. It's an opcode cache for PHP... should give you a major speed boost. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/