From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 22:41:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAB916A47B for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (relay0.rambler.ru [81.19.66.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D145543D73 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:39:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8B85EF0; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:38:59 +0300 (MSK) Received: from edoofus.park.rambler.ru (unknown [81.19.65.108]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF715ED9; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:38:58 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.park.rambler.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) id kADMd4E4084378; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:39:04 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:39:04 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Olivier Mueller Message-ID: <20061113223904.GB84153@rambler-co.ru> References: <1163442609.10865.59.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> <20061113191454.GB66013@rambler-co.ru> <1163455070.14157.9.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1163455070.14157.9.camel@bigapple.omnis.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: No virus found Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:41:22 -0000 --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--