Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:51:44 -0300 (BRT) From: mario.lobo@ipad.com.br To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) Message-ID: <50409.192.168.64.1.1191606704.squirrel@webmail.ipad.com.br>
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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000 > "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user >> data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. > > What's confusing? > > i386 is for 386 compatible processors - a 32-bit OS for 32-bit > processors, which is therefore limited to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) without the PAE workaround. > > amd64 is for AMD 64 compatible processors operated in 64-bit mode. > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > A while back, when a bought my current machine (an Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz Dual core) and was wondering which FreeBSD to install (i386 or amd64), someone advised me that amd64 was better for servers. On a desktop machine, i386 would be a better. As far as ports are concerned, this makes sence since some (or a lot, I don't know) ports (nvidia driver is a classic) do not compile on, or don't have versions for amd64. So, I did an SMP/i386 install. I cannot say I regret it since everything runs absolutely smooth and fast here. On the tecnical side (not practical) was it correct to give up 64 bit processing? -- ********************************************************** //| //| Mario Lobo // |// | http://www.ipad.com.br // // ||||||| FreeBSD since 2.2.8 - 100% Rwindows-free **********************************************************
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