Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 19:41:52 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501193659.05483bd0@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <42750861.8000509@mac.com> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> <42750861.8000509@mac.com>
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At 12:48 PM 01/05/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application
>>mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ?
>
>Databases. Big ones, anyway. Other than that, not much, unless you're
>running processes which would like to use more than 2GB of RAM.
Thanks! I was worried I was missing something obvious in all the 64bit
excitement. For my apps where I cant balance across multiple machines or
where space is an issue, dual core CPUs I think might be more interesting
to look at in a few months.
---Mike
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