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On Aug 18, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Robin Becker 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?

You can always run the 32bit FreeBSD on this if it makes you more  
comfortable.  That is what I do with all my Opteron machines.

What sort of webserving are you doing that the Celeron is slow?

Chad


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