-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: [...] > I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime..... the reason for > this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too > RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm up against the > RAM limit for 32-bit code. The board will support more but 32-bit code > won't; ergo, the only way to get beyond this is to go to 64-bit.
Oh wait! One thing you wanted to know is that, some database *can* have different on-disk format for 32-bit and 64-bit binaries. Be sure to have a dump handy. Last time I hit this on a MySQL "upgrade" between two servers, and I end up using its replication functionality. The operation took longer time than I expected at the beginning. My personal suggestion is that you do an experiment on another box (64-bit capable) to make sure that the data would work, this never hurts and avoids surprises (you do want 64-bit compile of your database application since you want to take full advantage of 64-bit OS); also, just like all upgrades, full backup is advised. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmU37AACgkQi+vbBBjt66BzlwCfUuQuTY8rXnhE/T1K9BNIZ7bi j9sAoJiPJApQrX5Gwd4kfFWoiGfQs44g =0oRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
