Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:51:58 -0500 From: "Diego F. Arias R." <dak.col@gmail.com> To: "sergio lenzi" <lenzi@k1.com.br> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors Message-ID: <3b93bd110808291451s3d479b35t3c52b70b5c249d64@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1220024054.2008.11.camel@localhost> References: <10549b080808290744u659d89f9m4c959a968cbe17e1@mail.gmail.com> <20080829105706.cb72b17d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <1220024054.2008.11.camel@localhost>
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:34 AM, sergio lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br> wrote: > Em Sex, 2008-08-29 às 10:57 -0400, Bill Moran escreveu: > >> In response to "FreeBSD Questions" <ml.freebsd.questions@gmail.com>: >> >> > FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha >> > and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 >> > architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain >> > ports are broken on AMD64. I would think if they worked on other >> > 64-bit processors they'd work on AMD64. Were the ports that are >> > broken on AMD64 also broken on those other architectures, too? >> >> Most of the ports I've had problems with are desktop applications. >> Stuff that doesn't often get installed/used on 64 bit. It's been a >> while since we've tried (about 1 year) but Gnome was pretty unstable >> on 64 bit at the time. > > I have had good experiences with gnome 2.22 and amd64 in produtcion > systems > running on dell poweredge with 4core cpus (4 logical processors) 2Gb of > memory, > 120 users using gnome, evolution, openoffice-3, epiphany, pidgin, > java... postgres > servers and a callcenter dial apllication, that needs an asterisk 1.4.21 > (on 64 bit too...) > runs about 24X7 the machine have somestimes 1200 process running full > time > alll the clients are thin clients (amd geode, 32 bits, 64mb)... 100 > mbits ethernet.... > with NO Backup... uptime is 38 days.... Yes... it needs more memory... > =================================================== > last pid: 65631; load averages: 0.89, 1.04, 1.07 up 38+05:23:12 > 12:23:15 > 824 processes: 1 running, 814 sleeping, 9 stopped > CPU states: 2.8% user, 0.0% nice, 1.0% system, 0.5% interrupt, 95.7% > idle > Mem: 1147M Active, 100M Inact, 601M Wired, 92M Cache, 213M Buf, 12M Free > Swap: 8192M Total, 1955M Used, 6237M Free, 23% Inuse, 12K In > =================================================== > we use it in our notebooks too (dell, acer, hp...) several ones about > 20... 64 bits amd64 > running on amd hardware or D series intel... > > The 32 bit version we use on the geode hardware.. but stays in the 64 > bit machine exported > in a nfs... > > Runs fine... > > Sergio > Hi How do you set up those clients. Im a bit curious
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