Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:56:21 +0000 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) Message-ID: <4577E545.60803@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr>
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Frank Bonnet wrote: > 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 :-) > you could try installing from the RC-1 images if your impatient. (ISOs in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 on your favorite mirror) Vince > Thanks again
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