Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:13:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, koitsu@FreeBSD.ORG, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: various rants about 7-currnet on AMD64 Message-ID: <200710011313.l91DDvao045072@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20071001065938.GA81735@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:30:59AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > > * AMD64 should be recommended (or at least better documented) for all > > dual-core machines > > This argument is flawed, in my opinion. Right. I prefer to run i386 on the dual-core Athlon64 X2 that I got recently at the office. (It's running well with RELENG_6 and 7-current, BTW.) > I think a more appropriate phrase would be: "amd64 should be recommended > for anyone that uses 4GB of RAM or more, and doesn't want to be hit by > performance penalties induced by PAE on i386". That's only half of the story ... Additionally, amd64 should be recommended for anyone who requires 4 GB of address space and more, irrespective of the amount of RAM. In particular, amd64 should be recommended if ZFS is to be used. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "I learned Java 3 years before Python. It was my language of choice. It took me two weekends with Python before I was more productive with it than with Java." -- Anthony Roberts
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