From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 14:26:29 2010 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 C6811106564A for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tobiash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gw0-f54.google.com (mail-gw0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F4008FC1B for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj21 with SMTP id 21so57454gwj.13 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:26:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1RDUxdaEK9QKxZdr6m3ZanUAoysDAWcug0Wq4QxlinY=; b=cViigArvi4NaIGyKoIPhbFTV76FV6bMXha6h8JtYl3cX801uHjJR2hfZlSOMMVVCyb hZgIDqgugvAgU2Bk7IzHZuLR3+QBQskBQ4Q4Eh7R+gBe4aopZARaoQZ6B32/zBKMcpjm y8skmxM6HmC6wc50cGnpQDK80oj8j307z8FLE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=AMSPaimEUt5wqYt+ftpt2kwCb4oeBW32i2Ax6GlaabaLbIn8fr2m3bDPmxzt39tXNe 3i/ODOstJauf2FVVHloKurG0+ve78Gn26j28ndV/045nNX6zHukZm4FwN3z1lJVMkAm4 SVo7xTcMLTkEzXPqB0NsEQZc+/kSlda3RPsoU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.166.20 with SMTP id o20mr4324930ane.95.1290522388343; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.201.9 with HTTP; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:26:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101123090036.6caf33b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <4CEB8EE1.1080702@kukulies.org> <20101123084342.4ab645d9@scorpio> <20101123090036.6caf33b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:26:28 -0700 Message-ID: From: Tobias To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ? 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: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:26:29 -0000 On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > It was only a few years ago that my advice was "Don't got 64 bit unless > you know you need it." > > Of course, things are always changing, and at this point in time, my > advice would be "only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that > won't work in 64 bit." > Could not agree more with your statements above. > I can speak personally that we have a multitude of servers running > PHP and Apache 2.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD with no trouble. I don't use > MySQL, but I have a hard time believing that it's not 64 bit clean. Right behind me is my 64-bit FreeBSD 8.1 server that hosts a number of websites. Apache2, php, perl, mysql, memcache, etc. all run just fine without any obvious issues. --Tobias