On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 22:14 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Btw, when will we see these new servers listed under: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html ? > > > > > And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on > > them? What a PITA! :-) > > Ehm well, I must admit I never tried that, for a simple (and silly?) > reason: freebsd installation selects the i386 SMP kernel by default... > Because you're trying to install FreeBSD/i386 on it; download and burn the FreeBSD/amd64 ISOs instead -- it will select an amd64 SMP kernel then.
> But of course if you (and Mike Jakubik) strongly suggest it would be a > good idea, why not, I will give a try asap :-) Any special thing I > should take care of when switching from the i686 kernel to the amd64 > one? > It will be a 64-bit world with 64-bit time_t. ;) > Will the systems be quicker this way, or will it "just" help > with this 4GB memory limit? > Quicker - probably not. Will certainly help with the 4G limit. > (systems are going to be "simple" web & > mail hosting servers, with mysql, php, qmail, clamav, etc.). > It should be fine then. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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