From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 17 19:37:19 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 242E5CB46CF for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:37:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [IPv6:2001:470:0:19b::b869:801b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.he.net", Issuer "GeoTrust SSL CA - G4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 153F0139E for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:37:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from ::ffff:99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA:SSLv3:Kx=RSA:Au=RSA:Enc=AES(128):Mac=SHA1) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:37:16 -0800 Subject: Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com> <20170117094218.104c86e1@curlew.lan> From: David Christensen Message-ID: <2a578c14-d0f7-cf2e-a0c1-2a1d57f1faf8@holgerdanske.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:37:15 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170117094218.104c86e1@curlew.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:37:19 -0000 On 01/17/17 01:42, Mike Clarke wrote: > 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. Thanks for the reply. 1. I also have some 32-bit machines, and would prefer one distribution for all of them. 2. If I find that I need more than 4 GB (3 GB?) of RAM, I'll either recompile with the PAE option or switch to 64-bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension David