Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:58 -0800 From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 on Nehelem Xeon? Message-ID: <560f92641001221614s1ccb6fcbg3407dd8445bfa1d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <hjddsk$8k9$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <560f92641001221524n1290e70fi51d766e8e0f488bf@mail.gmail.com> <hjddsk$8k9$1@ger.gmane.org>
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> There probably are some. If you are only interested in FreeBSD ports, you > can make a list of which ports you need and then inspect their Makefiles to > see if there's a flag disabling them on the amd64 architecture. OK thanks. Could you give me an example of a port that is disabled on 64 bit and tell me what I will find in the Makefile, so I can look for it on other ports? > Additional information for Nehalems is that you should stick to the more > widely available models - the 4 core+HTT ones. Some of the more exotic ones > (6 core) might have problems with ULE and topology guesswork. The L5506 is a 4 core model without Turbo Boost and without Hyper Threading. It's a power-efficient model. Think that'll be OK? http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40712
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