From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 22:01:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74C4B16A403 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@net-virtual.com) Received: from net-virtual.com (net-virtual.com [69.55.239.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C543E43D5D for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:01:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mailinglists@net-virtual.com) Received: (qmail 29022 invoked by uid 0); 27 Sep 2006 22:01:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www.net-virtual.com) (69.55.239.74) by net-virtual.com with SMTP; 27 Sep 2006 22:01:57 -0000 Received: from 207.47.2.114 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mailinglists@net-virtual.com); by www.net-virtual.com with HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33832.207.47.2.114.1159394517.squirrel@207.47.2.114> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0609271436i5adf81dcm77bc6f07b9bd1ee6@mail.gmail.com> References: <28535.207.47.2.114.1159392076.squirrel@207.47.2.114> <2a41acea0609271436i5adf81dcm77bc6f07b9bd1ee6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:01:57 -0700 (PDT) From: mailinglists@net-virtual.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Intel se7230NH1-E, 6gb memory not working on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:01:58 -0000 > Absolutely, its an architecture not a brand name, should call it x86_64 > as often done in Linux. If you run only a 32bit kernel on that system of > yours you're cheating yourself out of performance anyway. > > slurp down an iso and boot that before you go pulling dimms and such :) > > Jack > Okay, I'm doing that now (it will take a while, system is on IP-KVM and needs to get a CD-ROM attached to it). In the meantime, here are a few other questions that are not entirely obvious to me: 1. The system currently runs x86 FreeBSD 6.0. In the process of switching to AMD64 6.1, will I need to recompile everything (apache/etc) or will this work okay with x86 32-bit binaries? 2. Are there any changes to the filesystem structure or can this switch be done "in place" without reformatting the filesystems? Sorry if these questions seem pedantic, I've never done a move from x86 to amd64. - Greg