Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:01:03 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: =?UTF-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBNb3JhbmQ=?= <seb.morand@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64 Message-ID: <480630CF.4020907@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <16d3abd60804010444q3936889m436e979276f23ad8@mail.gmail.com> References: <16d3abd60804010444q3936889m436e979276f23ad8@mail.gmail.com>
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S=C3=A9bastien Morand wrote: > Hi, >=20 > ... >=20 > So before reinstalling everything, I'd like to know : > Is it a reasonable choice (in terme of performance, reliability, and > compatibility terms) to install i386 over amd64 arch? For a desktop i386 is still the better choice and unless you have more th= an 3G=20 of RAM there are no downsides, but many advantages. E.g. acpi sleep state= s are=20 only implemented for i386. I'm running amd64 on my notebook and the price= is=20 high. No suspend to ram or to disk (even though I have s4bios support), a= nd=20 not even cpu stepping (at least not the clock speed stepping only idle ca= lls=20 and they make /no/ difference at all). All these things would work if I ran i386, but I want to be there when th= ey=20 start working on amd64.
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