From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 17 09:45:35 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACF5CB0C8C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:45:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CA8F109C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:45:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([80.229.31.82]) by avasout08 with smtp id ZMiJ1u0031mJoLY01MiKb1; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:42:19 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=EZG4eLuC c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:117 a=cd0K7rcWwnZFf6xQxRobyA==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=IgFoBzBjUZAA:10 a=ZubcGFkXAAAA:8 a=huKModhzXlnVbVaNR_QA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=kUx6feENxpTNjkNjdsbW:22 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.87_1) (envelope-from ) id 1cTQHS-0000jv-5B for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:42:18 +0000 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:42:18 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20170117094218.104c86e1@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:45:35 -0000 On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:16:59 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > Therefore, I have been evaluating various BSD distributions over the > past several weeks using a computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard, > i7-2600S CPU, 8 GB RAM, and 16 GB SATA SSD: [snip] > So, I am making a second attempt at FreeBSD using: > > FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Though not directly relevant to your question the i386 image is a 32 bit system so you'd get better performance if you installed FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img instead to take full advantage of your 64 bit processor and all 8GB of your RAM. -- Mike Clarke