From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 00:07:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7182016A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 00:07:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outgoing.redshift.com (outgoing.redshift.com [207.177.231.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308EF43D48 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 00:07:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from workstation (216-228-19-21.dsl.redshift.com [216.228.19.21]) by outgoing.redshift.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 34F3E97090; Sun, 1 May 2005 17:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20050501170802.00b10c58@pop.redshift.com> X-Mailer: na X-Sender: redshift.com Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 17:08:02 -0700 To: Chuck Swiger , Mike Tancsa From: ray@redshift.com In-Reply-To: <42750861.8000509@mac.com> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 00:07:58 -0000 my benchmarking with apache shows that it does seem to run faster on 32 bit Xeon than 64 bit Opterons. PHP ran a bit faster on the Opterons, but nothing major. Ray At 12:48 PM 5/1/2005 -0400, 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. | | > In my ISP centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via apache, | > SMTP, AV and SPAM scanning, and firewalls/routing. Apart from larger RAM, | > why would these benefit from the 64bit world ? Or would they ? | | None of these tasks would benefit much from 64-bit computing; many of them | might even run faster in 32-bit mode than in 64-bit mode. | | -- | -Chuck | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" | |