Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:23:39 +1100 From: Dylan Leigh <dleigh@cs.rmit.edu.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <20061103232339.GA14349@clarence.dylanleigh.net> In-Reply-To: <20061103083331.GA854@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com> <20061103083331.GA854@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:33:31PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-Nov-02 11:12:43 -0800, David Marshall wrote: > > More importantly for us, it's impossible to build a 32-bit > > perl on the amd64, and we don't need a 64-bit perl. Our > > apache/mod_perl servers are 3X bigger on the amd64, and that > > is unsatisfactory. > > In most cases, an amd64 executable will be larger than an i386 > executable. I'm surprised that you've found such a big > difference. > I also found a threefold increase in the memory footprint of apache/mod_php/mod_perl when I switched from i386 to amd64. From what I've read this isn't unheard of on 64 bit linux/apache/php. Most other applications tend to be slightly larger on amd64.
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