Bonjour, On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:59 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > 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? > > The easiest way is to re-install with an /amd64 ISO.
On new servers, sure. But on already active (and in production) systems? I guess a make buildkernel is not enought, and that at least a make buildworld would be necessary? Or even some ports? I can go offline for a few minutes, but certainly not hours... :) > > Will the systems be quicker this way, > > When addressing more than 4 GB of physical RAM, a native > 64bit system is certainly more efficient (hence quicker) > than the PAE kludge. Ok, good point. Thanks for your feedback! regards, Olivier _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
