Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:37:48 +0100 From: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> To: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) Message-ID: <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> <4576F817.2000004@mac.com>
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Peter A. Giessel wrote: > It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been > asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by > searching the archives. > > If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might > be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, > however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports > that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm > running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, > Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, > 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead of sendmail ) it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that will be integrated in 6.2 ... If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never did that but there is probably a way to do it :-) Thanks again -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet
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