Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:56:10 +0700 From: Affan Basalamah <affanzbasalamah@gmail.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 on HP Proliant DL145 Message-ID: <eb1b5f97050521085668f0d93a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050520134353.J8229@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <eb1b5f9705051919546cc50c39@mail.gmail.com> <20050520134353.J8229@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Thank you for your response, I finally managed to install 5.4 version of FreeBSD/amd64, and by running portsupgrade, all utilities I need (snort/base/nfsen) installed smoothly. I think it's ready for primetime! Thanks! -affan On 5/21/05, Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Affan Basalamah wrote: >=20 > > I want to know if installing amd64 version of FreeBSD on my 1-cpu HP > > Proliant DL145 will give me significant performance gain compared to > > i386 version. I would like to run IDS (snort/base) and NFSen > > (nfsen.sourceforge.net) on this box, and plan to monitor ingress > > traffic on gigeth port of catalyst 6500. > > > > Please tell me, is it easier for me to just install i386 on this > > DL145, or install amd64 to get better performance ? Is there any > > problem with application such as snort/base on amd64 platform ? >=20 > snort is a large amount of string analysis and the additional registers > should help significantly. It appears to work on all architectures so > there should be no problem building and running it on amd64 vs. i386. >=20 > -- > Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org >
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