From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 20:54:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57C716A407 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342BA43D5F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9BKskqa006646; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:54:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9BKskgJ006645; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:54:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:54:46 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer To: Gary Jennejohn Message-ID: <20061011205446.GA6548@cons.org> References: <452C0286.000005.20759@pantene.yandex.ru> <200610111149.k9BBnaxm001133@peedub.jennejohn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610111149.k9BBnaxm001133@peedub.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: alecn2002@yandex.ru, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fw: To amd64 or not to amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:54:58 -0000 Gary Jennejohn wrote on Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:49:36PM +0200: > > "alecn2002" writes: > > The question is: will I have any benefits if I'll move to amd64 system, or it > > 's safer and better to stay with i386 arch? > > > [snip] > > Problem-free operation and stability have precedense for me over system speed > > > > The only real advantage of 64-bit over 32-bit is that you can put more than > 4 GB of RAM into the box. If you don't plan to do that, then stick with > i386. I've been using a dual-core AMD64 for a while now and I've decided to > stick with i386. This is incorrect. 32bit with PAE uses 4GB RAM and more just fine. However, userlevel processes are limited to 3 GB virtual memory on 32 bit FreeBSD, each. As for the original question, amd64 complicated things quite a bit as some people need to keep some 64 bit stuff around, e.g. a firefox chain for flash (I use a Linux chain anyway) and xine/mplayer for the 32 bit Windows dlls. Also, no NVidia driver means you might have lousy quality of the videos in question (although you certainly have enough CPU power to live without video acceleration). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/