From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 17:51:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD2A16A419 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario.lobo@ipad.com.br) Received: from ipad.com.br (recife.ipad.com.br [200.249.204.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D11A13C459 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mario.lobo@ipad.com.br) Received: (qmail 87955 invoked by uid 79); 5 Oct 2007 17:51:44 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by recife.ipad.com.br (envelope-from , uid 1008) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.91.2-exp/4472. spamassassin: 3.1.8. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.071227 secs); 05 Oct 2007 17:51:44 -0000 X-Antivirus-IPAD-Mail-From: mario.lobo@ipad.com.br via recife.ipad.com.br X-Antivirus-IPAD: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.071227 secs Process 87947) Received: from localhost (HELO webmail.ipad.com.br) (127.0.0.1) by ipad.com.br with SMTP; 5 Oct 2007 17:51:44 -0000 Received: from 192.168.64.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mario.lobo@ipad.com.br) by webmail.ipad.com.br with HTTP; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:51:44 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <50409.192.168.64.1.1191606704.squirrel@webmail.ipad.com.br> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:51:44 -0300 (BRT) From: mario.lobo@ipad.com.br To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or 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: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:51:46 -0000 > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000 > "Aryeh Friedman" wrote: > >> I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user >> data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. > > What's confusing? > > i386 is for 386 compatible processors - a 32-bit OS for 32-bit > processors, which is therefore limited to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) without the PAE workaround. > > amd64 is for AMD 64 compatible processors operated in 64-bit mode. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > A while back, when a bought my current machine (an Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz Dual core) and was wondering which FreeBSD to install (i386 or amd64), someone advised me that amd64 was better for servers. On a desktop machine, i386 would be a better. As far as ports are concerned, this makes sence since some (or a lot, I don't know) ports (nvidia driver is a classic) do not compile on, or don't have versions for amd64. So, I did an SMP/i386 install. I cannot say I regret it since everything runs absolutely smooth and fast here. On the tecnical side (not practical) was it correct to give up 64 bit processing? -- ********************************************************** //| //| Mario Lobo // |// | http://www.ipad.com.br // // ||||||| FreeBSD since 2.2.8 - 100% Rwindows-free **********************************************************