Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 10:51:13 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386). Message-ID: <D5132979-8143-420D-9D99-ED4B15389C7F@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <E1FRVcq-0004pJ-4c@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1FRVcq-0004pJ-4c@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Apr 6, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Pete French wrote: > I was thinking of moving this to amd64, but was kind of put off by > results > from a test system I setup using an Athlon 64 3700+ to talk to this > machine. The opteron box is currently running 6.1-PRE/i386, and the > 3700 is Let me comment that my 64-bit commentary about I/O is based on experience with Opterons, which have excellent I/O bandwidth. The Intel EM64T boxes do ok, too, but I have no experience with other 64- bit CPUs. The opterons are just a notch above anything else that I've used. That said, I run 64-bit FreeBSD on all servers capable of it, just to have consistent system images (all my new boxes going forward are 64 bit, so I can eventually phase out the 32-bit system images). Management of multiple systems changes the decision making process sometimes...
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