Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 12:48:33 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs Message-ID: <42750861.8000509@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application > mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ? Databases. Big ones, anyway. Other than that, not much, unless you're running processes which would like to use more than 2GB of RAM. > In my ISP centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via apache, > SMTP, AV and SPAM scanning, and firewalls/routing. Apart from larger RAM, > why would these benefit from the 64bit world ? Or would they ? None of these tasks would benefit much from 64-bit computing; many of them might even run faster in 32-bit mode than in 64-bit mode. -- -Chuck
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