From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 17:36:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64821A5A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:36:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from birdfund@yahoo.com) Received: from nm22.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm22.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.212.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087E78FC13 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.139.215.143] by nm22.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 17:36:25 -0000 Received: from [98.139.213.6] by tm14.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 17:36:25 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2012 17:36:25 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1354124185; bh=EmQbyTyAVsBs1LD79KrsQZVhR2b8uAtTyeC+pqIxmfU=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Reply-To:Message-Id:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer; b=NXlQTksPN4jLTLHlm5iV0ciP9O92BdIEpNBPargLxUoTG3wI/lwQs1wZHiD0PBZjIqq/Vrav5jLVVyYCQ/YJVqWhVNMrCfws6PFx11207Iqdnt+oGH/Wsu38vifllJKG7+rGN3jl/p4RKeBGhSgUsTuo0S9HYaH7APeCoKbUyDA= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 606041.12391.bm@smtp106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 79wPEjoVM1mc9bXpfg3UbOMUoXnV4156LSwqyjn9j5WRPrG 0zEQDXHBoE9A4aakdXfhamCY3Wj.LElDRuMGmOtHiKvFr7YIJvHYIFAkTznk .4TyXqRzAizUURxxz6ryxp99wlbQZHu4WRJcz_3rKTtqgVrF41WWhHNZnCGA NeDqAOFhJB1n_Zuxy.lpjLSGRbHZFiDphxjLh8cItBDKLLsk63lX.obofD0e e_Z0Z5r1dXhOlg6BXaCaAyPxMmhnTkO71YU3hOx0_5YTvlyJN6EQYsmVuzdu Ldlb.qa.EGs8Y8MWT077sU6jTgmqAGyUWPKsqLgbYwo.JzD4hId6dEtIwrys 8b2rBrObpSmKHy9cZVraIIWr6oK7.F6jQZjtIQrud8tOFVSSCYrp1iJbkcf0 Qgr6pueAdq9gL_CxWSj6vEIaNXOswLtMu4oYYmIagPn4vqtddBoQkdskOMjo QUMBrRvOTPT4mFH6teisrpmpH X-Yahoo-SMTP: wDGpPfeswBCEw2oBirJfLQQ0ktKW3ichZt6e0469Tg6z Received: from [192.168.1.3] (birdfund@108.41.119.38 with login) by smtp106.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2012 09:36:25 -0800 PST Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:36:25 -0500 From: mike miskulin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: i386 vs amd64 Message-Id: <20121128123623.4A29.AA011270@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.55 [en] (Evaluation) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: birdfund@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:36:32 -0000 About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best off to stick with i386 and PAE or is the amd64 version finally on a par or close enough that I would not likely have many issues like in the past? Thanks for your thoughts/(recent) experiences.