On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:43:07PM -0400, System Administrator 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?
I don't know why people still bother with anything different than i386. I use amd64 in everything that supports it, without a single problem related with the architecture itself.
