From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 18 22:23:45 2007 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 42CEE16A400 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:23:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wanderingidea@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC6C13C459 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:23:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wanderingidea@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so442518ugh for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=aJUM6scyMfGAoO+E4h53oz3cEipTrN4yHAdqqWjiZLnSBkCahcUUihmYHumiiMGJQWaijI9+jsGpqVNVZrZEMjIMSAGxep5I1SLAQsUrs8ms04Nvxz477tp/izrCjkRzQyVL3PLZnqrGIeipHR48mCuvxxA7eLz4sD5wvDqhJ+c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=X9R7Vu7hny4s34HAoUIpeasvCxPul7SMzCUVRykAHn8Ti8MzQw5LxGfrNGwfgU7XTYRO/5V2XHPRDg3Hu0D5k2/PyrMt0qiHcCNLQuNlFBDRhrgyzDcdI4+bEZvjW8iSUE2jpHuy9XO6tSUgXNSjY8gwNRqmL+eNRqBtfoNKaZQ= Received: by 10.67.89.5 with SMTP id r5mr1369398ugl.1176935023877; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdbox.cable.casema.nl ( [83.86.62.218]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y34sm2964919iky.2007.04.18.15.23.42; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:23:41 +0200 From: wanderingidea@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070419002341.1ca84c3d@bsdbox.cable.casema.nl> In-Reply-To: <19889.31715.qm@web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <19889.31715.qm@web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.0 (GTK+ 2.10.11; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: AMD64 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: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:23:45 -0000 Hi, FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems often hang the system completely. That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. Apart from that I am very happy with it. Regards, Cor On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT) Michael S wrote: > Good day all. > > I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or > tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with > the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. > > Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on > a 64-bit machine? > > Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers, > applications that are known not to work under the > AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type > system. > > Thanks in advance, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"