From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 8 16:41:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2C416A400 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:41:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDFB43D45 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:41:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k38GfaeM039071; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:41:36 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:41:36 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20060406192950.GE700@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20060408203233.K67402@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20060406192950.GE700@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:41:37 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386). X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:41:40 -0000 On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: PJ> >I know that what I should do is install i386 on the client and test again, but PJ> >doing that will lose my only 64 bit environment so I am loathe to do so. Any PJ> >comments ? PJ> PJ> Backup your amd64 environment and install i386. You can re-install PJ> the amd64 once the testing is finished. The best benchmark is always PJ> your own application. Or, even better, use spare disk or at least spare slice. Having fresh good backup never hurts though ;-) For local tinderbox I have the following partitioning scheme: part size purpose ad0s1a 2G RELENG_6/amd64 ad0s1b 2G swap/dumps ad0s1d 2G RELENG_5/amd64 ad0s1e 2G RELENG_6/i386 ad0s1f 2G RELENG_5/i386 ad0s1g 2G HEAD/amd64 ad0s1h 2G HEAD/i386 ad0s2 rest all version-independent data, such as sources, ports, /usr/obj and homedirs This seems to be useful, if you do not use/check huge packages such as OopenOffice.org; in the latter case, you can increase partitions size accordingly. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------