From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 15:56:14 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 006B716A4CE for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 15:56:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DED2743D79 for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 15:56:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from affanzbasalamah@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1448732wra for ; Sat, 21 May 2005 08:56:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sTFiJpg0WzkFyg4zWtpKjDIuWBcpsOiIuragm4HyYsTuQrDutgOXzTwEJvUNhxyOWYPRcHrcqREcAZDNno3wWSX3jy6v77w8RBqlMOSQZdJVtGQjec7Zbx8EpnMkQpq4/8XpGK9QUDA8UTlGm9lr98i/IggJuFmtaAel8NlOb1A= Received: by 10.54.69.16 with SMTP id r16mr1722326wra; Sat, 21 May 2005 08:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.37.4 with HTTP; Sat, 21 May 2005 08:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:56:10 +0700 From: Affan Basalamah To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20050520134353.J8229@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050520134353.J8229@carver.gumbysoft.com> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 on HP Proliant DL145 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Affan Basalamah List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:56:14 -0000 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 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 >