Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:48:01 -0600 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: ipfreak@yahoo.com, Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: intel 64-bit version? Message-ID: <11167f520902020748h21a11684n137ae139b367b82f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <498709C8.1090106@gmail.com> References: <769541.13800.qm@web52112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090202154016.5fd0a5a3.cyb.@gmx.net> <498709C8.1090106@gmail.com>
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> It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports >4GB with the PAE > kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 > because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work > properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine as a GUI desktop > *AND* you have a nvidia video card you get almost 10 times better > performence with i386 because amd64 has a hard time reconizing PCI cards > installed "above" the 4gb limit (the phsycial addr is above RAM) I could be wrong, but I thought that the nvidia binary driver did not work on a i386 PAE kernel. Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks
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