Olivier Mueller wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > 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... > > 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. > 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. > or will it "just" help with this 4GB memory limit? Yes it will. With /amd64, the address space is larger than 4 GB. With /i386, it is always limited to 4 GB, no matter if you use PAE or not. (Actually the address space for user processes is even more limited: 4 GB minus the kernel's address space.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?" -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
