From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 14:53:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0FA16A41C for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:53:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73AB43D49 for ; Fri, 27 May 2005 14:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from solo.sci.kun.nl [131.174.16.134] (helo=localhost) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/5.2) with ESMTP id j4RErJkk026897; Fri, 27 May 2005 16:53:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 16:14:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050526233707.O5798@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050527080329.GA5586@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050527080329.GA5586@ip.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505271614.15092.groot@kde.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 131.174.33.4 Cc: Subject: Re: Memory usage for AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:53:25 -0000 On Friday 27 May 2005 10:03, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:44:48PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > A current i386 machine that I plan to replace is using less than 128MB of > > RAM out of the 256MB installed. The swap is less than 500K. The only > > processes are SSH, postfix and samba. > > > > Will an AMD64 setup be in the same memory usage range? Under 128MB. > > > > I am planning on getting 256MB anyways, but want to make sure that AMD64 > > doesn't have a bigger memory footprint for the OS and that apps don't use > > significantly more memory when compiled under AMD64. So then -- if you insist on using only a tiny memory size -- run it in i386 mode; it;ll be a fast x86 system then. -- As of September 1st, 2004, the University of Nijmegen will _still_ be the University of Nijmegen, but with a different nonsensical adjective in front. Reach me at groot@kde.org instead. GPG FEA2 A3FE