Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 10:38:13 -0500 From: Mike Horwath <drechsau@Geeks.ORG> To: NOC Prowip <tec@mega.net.br> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance 4.x vs. 6.x Message-ID: <20061014153813.GC72440@Geeks.ORG> In-Reply-To: <200610141113.25155.tec@mega.net.br> References: <20061014130331.68863.qmail@web33312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200610141113.25155.tec@mega.net.br>
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:13:24AM -0300, NOC Prowip wrote: > Hi, I am hooking in here without any intention to fire things up but > isn 't this discussion certainly useless? Not only 4.11 is gone but > also i386 is practically marked to die out as well as UP systems > are. Wow, I hope not. Unless you are separating out i386/i486 and such. Many people refer to i386 as all 32bit x86 systems. > All platforms are going to be 64bits and memory of 4GB or more is > not so rare anymore. Allmost all AM2 MBs support already 16MB. Even > most professionals are not using SCSI anymore but Sata-II. I disagree. SATA (of any gen) still does not perform like SCSI. Let's just look at spindle speed alone ignoring the other benefits of SCSI. Now, I am not a lover of 32bit either, all of my new systems are amd64 (either Opteron or EM64T systems). -- Mike Horwath, reachable via drechsau@Geeks.ORG
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