Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 20:41:36 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386). Message-ID: <20060408203233.K67402@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060406192950.GE700@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <CBC0AAB4-EC80-44C8-BCCE-010DE99D4BC0@khera.org> <E1FRVcq-0004pJ-4c@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20060406192950.GE700@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: PJ> >I know that what I should do is install i386 on the client and test again, but PJ> >doing that will lose my only 64 bit environment so I am loathe to do so. Any PJ> >comments ? PJ> PJ> Backup your amd64 environment and install i386. You can re-install PJ> the amd64 once the testing is finished. The best benchmark is always PJ> your own application. Or, even better, use spare disk or at least spare slice. Having fresh good backup never hurts though ;-) For local tinderbox I have the following partitioning scheme: part size purpose ad0s1a 2G RELENG_6/amd64 ad0s1b 2G swap/dumps ad0s1d 2G RELENG_5/amd64 ad0s1e 2G RELENG_6/i386 ad0s1f 2G RELENG_5/i386 ad0s1g 2G HEAD/amd64 ad0s1h 2G HEAD/i386 ad0s2 rest all version-independent data, such as sources, ports, /usr/obj and homedirs This seems to be useful, if you do not use/check huge packages such as OopenOffice.org; in the latter case, you can increase partitions size accordingly. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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