From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 21:47:51 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1213F16A4E5 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794B343D4C for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:47:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1GECBw-000Gkk-QJ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:47:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: <44E5F458.1070606@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <200608181731.k7IHVNdA019498@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:47:47 -0600 To: Nikolas Britton X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Robin Becker , freebsd-questions Questions Subject: Re: AMD 64 3000 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: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:47:51 -0000 On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/18/06, Jerry McAllister wrote: >> > >> > Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web >> server? We >> > are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm >> hesitant >> > to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? >> >> What are you doing that would make that seem slow? >> Are you sure it is the processor and not some other >> part that is the bottleneck, such as disk or NIC or >> your pipe to the outside world (ISP)? >> > > He's probably running a big PHP web app... If so try eaccelerator > first, it's in ports under www/eaccelerator. It's an opcode cache for > PHP... should give you a major speed boost. Yes, I have this running. Made a HUGE difference. If it is indeed a PHP thing. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net