Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 20:38:13 +1000 From: Michael Vince <mv@roq.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Complaints regarding amd64 and FreeBSD 5.X... Message-ID: <417A3495.8020802@roq.com> In-Reply-To: <FEEF8C67-24D6-11D9-BC9B-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org> References: <FEEF8C67-24D6-11D9-BC9B-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>
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Sean Chittenden wrote: > I just installed 5.3-RC1 and things went beautifully. sysinstall is > rather obnoxious when fdisk'ing a 1.5TB drive/array with that popup > message (need to set a static variable so that it only pops it up once > per session instead of after every keystroke). Anyway, no matter how > large the build is (world is done in under 30min now), I can't walk > away for hours at a time and retain a sense of satisfaction that the > computer is doing something while I'm away. By the time I return, the > machine is idle. In many cases, it's idle by the time I stand up. > Going from no ports installed to a completed PostgreSQL install takes > less than 3 minutes. Thanks for nothing. I needed a guilt free trip > to the bathroom or the vending machine. Other complaints include: > > *) needing to turn off quick boot that way I have a chance of pushing > delete in time so I can enter the bios > *) getting frustrated with writing down and looking at 64bit > addresses. "No one needs more than 4GB of RAM in a server anyway." What if your a JSP hosting service that runs multiple tomcats through apache, Java processes nicely eat 200megs per tomcat.
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