From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 08:34:17 2004 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 1352416A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.uk.psi.com (mail.uk.psi.com [154.8.2.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8866243D31 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan.barrow@psinet.telstra.co.uk) Received: from [154.8.26.81] (helo=psinet.telstra.co.uk) by mail.uk.psi.com with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CW9eH-0002hn-3e; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:13 +0000 Message-ID: <41A1A467.9000404@psinet.telstra.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:33:43 +0000 From: alan barrow Organization: PSINet a telstra company User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Macintosh/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Claus Guttesen References: <20041119163615.63809.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041119163615.63809.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000003000302010209070403" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org cc: Palle Girgensohn Subject: Re: Dell 2850 & amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: alan.barrow@psinet.telstra.co.uk List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:34:17 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000003000302010209070403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Java on amd64 ? think you will have to go i386. Claus Guttesen wrote: >>The machine shall be a general utility system, >>running email (cyrus) and >>web (apache), postgresql and php, some simple java >>(tomcat). >>Before I build all ports needed, is there anything I >>need to set to make >>the ports build 64 bit? All I've done now is to get >>the kernel built in >>64-bit mode. Is that enough to make all ports built >>in 64 bit? Shall I set >>CPUTYPE to something? The CPUs are two Xeon, is that >>p4? >> >> > >I omitted CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. Other than that, >you just have to check CPUTYPE in a shell. > > > >>Is it even wise to use amd64? Is it stable enough? >>Docs say so, but >>browsning this list gives me second thoughts? >> >> > >I have a 2850 running postgresql, sometimes heavily >loaded, but works like a charm besides that. > >There is a description on how to get java working on >this list (as far as I remember). > > > >>Perhaps this is all FAQ and RTFM, but I've searched >>the net a bit about >>this, couldn't find the right answers. Sorry, I'm >>still a newbie in >>AMD64-land. :)= >> >> > >The amd-port appears to be slightly faster than it's >i386-cousin on same hardware. > >Claus > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > --------------000003000302010209070403--