Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:39:04 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? Message-ID: <20061113223904.GB84153@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <1163455070.14157.9.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> References: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> <20061113191454.GB66013@rambler-co.ru> <1163455070.14157.9.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ?=20 > > >=20 > > And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on > > them? What a PITA! :-) >=20 > Ehm well, I must admit I never tried that, for a simple (and silly?) > reason: freebsd installation selects the i386 SMP kernel by default... >=20 Because you're trying to install FreeBSD/i386 on it; download and burn the FreeBSD/amd64 ISOs instead -- it will select an amd64 SMP kernel then. > But of course if you (and Mike Jakubik) strongly suggest it would be a > good idea, why not, I will give a try asap :-) Any special thing I > should take care of when switching from the i686 kernel to the amd64 > one? >=20 It will be a 64-bit world with 64-bit time_t. ;) > Will the systems be quicker this way, or will it "just" help > with this 4GB memory limit? >=20 Quicker - probably not. Will certainly help with the 4G limit. > (systems are going to be "simple" web & > mail hosting servers, with mysql, php, qmail, clamav, etc.). >=20 It should be fine then. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWPQIqRfpzJluFF4RAsNnAJ0RWmrh6qylOX9QVDwRqssvcfoALgCfdH/5 HcowqVdWWWzwFNEHkg5fuT4= =hez4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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