Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 03:45:53 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Opteron Server with -STABLE ... Message-ID: <20031009014552.GA93741@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20031008210133.K759@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20031008210133.K759@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:03:48PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Is there a current opinion on this? I heard that costs have come down to > 'close to dual xeon' prices, but is it safe to run -STABLE on it? Other > then memory allocation above 4g, are we seeing any benefits right now with > running this? Or are we dealin with 'running 32 bit apps on a 64 bit > arch' still? FreeBSD 4.x has no support for running on Opterons in 64-bit mode, and probably never will. 5.x does have some support but I have the impression it is not quite production-quality yet. If you want to run -STABLE on Opterons right now it would have to run in 32-bit mode, and thus not be much different from running on Xeons. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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