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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 2003 04:09:19 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Opteron Server with -STABLE ...
Message-ID:  <20031009110919.GA7889@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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:
>=20
> 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 does not support 64-bit mode on amd64 machines (so all the
usual i386 VM limitations, etc), you'll have to use 5.x.

Kris

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