From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 00:15:38 2005 Return-Path: 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 538C316A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F9A043D2F for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:15:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0M0FYGT040766; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0M0FX9M040765; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:15:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:15:33 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Hugo Silva Message-ID: <20050122001533.GB39743@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <41F1903D.3060508@celeritystorm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F1903D.3060508@celeritystorm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would this system work correctly with FreeBSD 5.3 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:15:38 -0000 On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:29:01PM +0000, Hugo Silva wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm buying a Quad AMD Opteron 64 bits, with 4GB memory. I'd like to know > if FreeBSD 5.3 will support a quad-cpu system (with HTT, 8) correctly, > without performance losses and consistent operation, no crashes etc. Is > the 4GB memory still a problem in amd64 ? This configuration does not exist -- AMD does not have a HTT (SMT) processor. AMD will lauch full-fledged dual-core (CMP) CPU's later this year. That said, FreeBSD 5.3 should run just fine on a 4-CPU 4GB Opteron server. That said, I prefer to run 5-STABLE (RELENG_5) on the FreeBSD/amd64 platform as it gets a lot of improvements committed to it. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)