From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 30 17:50:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C729E7 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 17:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from MGASS@csbsju.edu) Received: from smtp2.computing.csbsju.edu (smtp2.computing.csbsju.edu [152.65.184.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69E059B0 for ; Thu, 30 May 2013 17:50:57 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: ac10425c-b7f3d6d000002d88-79-51a78df6355c Received: from Mail-HTCAS1.ad.csbsju.edu (Unknown_Domain [172.16.66.43]) by smtp2.computing.csbsju.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id AE.F0.11656.6FD87A15; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:51 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nx.csbsju.edu (172.16.66.48) by MAIL-HTCAS1.ad.csbsju.edu (172.16.66.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.123.3; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:50 -0500 Received: by nx.csbsju.edu (Postfix, from userid 1401) id ABF011807C8; Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:50 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: Michael Gass Resent-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:35:50 -0500 Resent-Message-ID: <20130530173550.GA6991@csbsju.edu> Resent-To: Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 12:19:41 -0500 From: Michael Gass To: Subject: Should I move to amd64 ? Message-ID: <20130530171941.GA1208@csbsju.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA11Ta0xbZRjma0t3qHx6OC3lXYFlHN0lU7uxzW3JdA6Ml5ig1Bhv2bIVemzP KKX2tDg0KjOgowFXLtsYsEjCgLnh0IljBhnQXVomGCGyiSDxB0y3EAl1uDEW8FwoHPbn5O3z vO/zvJevhJI6pjEQrMPNuBxmO63WqJrI1MefvFPSaNoQvK3ednPqrGoneqky9KUqHb2jedrC 2NlcxrV+x16NrfvXkUhnl2p/5WAA5aMmpRdFEUBuhr8nq1RSrIdfRprVXqQhKPJnBH8OHFdJ P+oRnLgxLWZRpAN6fO3LpPgJCE0fVYTjZm+bWoqfgoKmgUgvIvh4HRw+uVuAVeQquFp9UUxX 8/Hnl78QJXUkDfdaL4u4lkyCwZYLojwmjXBw/DSS4hjoPjYq5it5q9q2kFqQV5Lx0DhLCHAs +RhUdJ+b7yARjviGlT6krZJVV8mqqxara5HyFDJw2W7nRmNmTrbT42YdVmMml8Ht8xgZi+cs kha96zwK9G3xI5JAdDTutDSaqEhzLpeX7UdZhII24MPd1SZKm5FjybOZOdsezpORzXIcm+Og Y3Gtl09/eIFzeewMR+uwnj8dhRfgDI89i16Bi87Um6g4mRDnZDPZHA+3x+Oy+xEQSr60vlgo tZjzPmBcOZKgH8UTKjoOXy8YT6dIq9nNZDGMk3GF2fcJgk7EKCIigtK7GCuz/13Wzr8leaeA lUJLMXJaajYO53I8Q8oZsd8kPDPXYKIMSxWXtqwgovzISkTTyyV7inOasznWKrfW4SviSGFK stXitQIaHUZFy0T8YjO/Iv2iitzuKnrPkIA/EjJihQybx7F0SkMcpoQpSRkruhn0+K9knnhE RgiGhpW49xtebvkSObnnLVSh4N8F4ArhEcTw/9EHptPifnGOeUYajsJjRTz40DwozpaAnWLn CxJym41nEIHIWQUEJ6s10Fw3jeHSFZ8OyiYCerjfOJ4MwcrWrdBRcncbBPvrtkOwbCQFyq93 PAc3T/3xMtzt7DDBXFfBG3Bv4tJbUBQ6+Tb8O9O/C6ZODO2Fwd8bLPBD738MTB08Z4VrQ/ku mPy2JQ/8tYUfw9yBKR+CtlB5OYLh0lb+6wuUVCPo+Mpbg2A0cOE4jxQH+G+oqqUOwexvN+rQ Lf7qisWru80P7kWHR7eLV5+nwldPF5YQHUbnr54mXX1BRb4aQz76sD1tdauxZWfB14c6P9tq G1ype3WiPSZluD2t98c1tzMzDrQTk5sKX3/+mYTNn5RUDPSt0pZu+b5ntizKH+x7xaprSN2n WXutBvflvbY7dfLZ06Ub7pRpexI3re8a2/Hmod6LK4aM92uSllmHisfKz8fPfFo4ngaPplSu ie5n2X9e+Om71bSKs5mT1yldnPl/sr64iKwFAAA= X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:50:58 -0000 I am currently using a 9.1-RELEASE with an i386 install. The hardware is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. Things work fine. Would I gain anything by starting over and doing an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. I understand some ports my not work - like WINE - but I do not use WINE. Would there be other problems? -- Michael Gass mgass@csbsju.edu