Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:23:41 +0200 From: wanderingidea@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 Message-ID: <20070419002341.1ca84c3d@bsdbox.cable.casema.nl> In-Reply-To: <19889.31715.qm@web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com> References: <19889.31715.qm@web88307.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
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Hi, FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems often hang the system completely. That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. Apart from that I am very happy with it. Regards, Cor On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT) Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> wrote: > Good day all. > > I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or > tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with > the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. > > Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on > a 64-bit machine? > > Also what are the common problems, i.e. drivers, > applications that are known not to work under the > AMD64. This is going to be a desktop/workstation type > system. > > Thanks in advance, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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