From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 09:56:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9601216A40F for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (www.unsane.co.uk [85.233.185.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4CB743CA8 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:55:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.217] (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.13.7/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kB79ujZI003109 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:56:46 GMT (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4577E545.60803@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:56:21 +0000 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061204) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Bonnet References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> In-Reply-To: <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Peter A. Giessel" , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:56:35 -0000 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