Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:32:57 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Dell 2850 & amd64? Message-ID: <A1FEEC0DC78A5F3F3E56762B@rambutan.pingpong.net>
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Hi! Just got a Dell 2850 and installed FreeBSD 5.3 (AMD64). It is SMP (double Xeon cpus), seems to work fine. I've built an smp kernel from amd64/conf. The machine shall be a general utility system, running email (cyrus) and web (apache), postgresql and php, some simple java (tomcat). Before I build all ports needed, is there anything I need to set to make the ports build 64 bit? All I've done now is to get the kernel built in 64-bit mode. Is that enough to make all ports built in 64 bit? Shall I set CPUTYPE to something? The CPUs are two Xeon, is that p4? Is it even wise to use amd64? Is it stable enough? Docs say so, but browsning this list gives me second thoughts? Perhaps this is all FAQ and RTFM, but I've searched the net a bit about this, couldn't find the right answers. Sorry, I'm still a newbie in AMD64-land. :)= Cheers, Palle
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