If I'm not mistaken, i386 does not support more that 3GB of memory. amd64 bumped this number recently and machines with big amount of RAM available can use all its memory.
Luis. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:43 PM, System Administrator <ad...@bitwise.net> wrote: > Looking to build a firewall for a fairly busy (25+mb) site. Hardware is > Dell PE2850, 2 Xeon 64-bit CPUs, 4GB RAM, 6 em(4) interfaces. Software > is primarily pf(4) and relayd(8). > > Not so long ago the recommendation was to use the i386 build for a > slight perfomance and stability benefit. Is that still the case? What > are the advantages and shortcomings of amd64? > > Thanks in advance.
