From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 14:23:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: amd64@freebsd.org 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 05DE216A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:23:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EC243D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1NENPZM042120; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43FDC54D.5030008@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:23:09 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry References: <43FCEF9C.5050308@bluelight.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <43FCEF9C.5050308@bluelight.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 64 stability X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:23:36 -0000 Terry wrote: > I need to build a new server to send down to the data centre for hosting > and possible game server type stuff. > I have a ASUS 64 bit board and cpu spare so was considering using these > with amd64 version. But due to the data centre being 300 mile away i > thought i would check how you guys are finding it first :). Or shall i > play it safe and use the i386 i just can't decide > > Ter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I have been running the AMD64 branch for well into a year now. I've noted considerable issues while attempting to use AMD64 for a desktop, and would therefore not reccomend it for desktop use, (note some other replies mentioning nvidia driver, sound, raid, netcard, etc issues). That being said, as a server - it's rock solid. We're running single and dual AMD Opteron boxen here, with 2+ gigs of ECC RAM. Accross the board we're standardized on 3Ware 9000-Series Escalades and Western Digital 'SD' (RAID-Edition) drives. These machines run OpenLDAP, MySQL, samba, Apache+mod_perl, Apache+mod_ssl, and a myriad of home-built applications written in Perl and C. Baring some issues with nss_ldap, and more specifically the OpenLDAP libs prior to 2.2.x branch under FreeBSD 5.4/amd64... we've had no performance nor stability issues. All the servers here authenticate using nss_ldap, and pam_ldap to a central account server, which is something relatively new to FreeBSD in general (nss_ldap, pam_ldap only been able to work with FreeBSD reliably since the 5.x branches) - so I suspect our troubles even still were not amd64 specific. I've got servers here running 100+ days of uptime, running 6.0/amd64 with SMP and booting from RAID volumes with NO issues. To me, that's as stable as I need to be. I've got some colocated stuff too, but the hardware is i386, so as-is the O/S... -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/