Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: > The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then > FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary > reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: > The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then > FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary > reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB > of RAM. > > This should give you the speed boost you

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: > IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 > EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 > AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: > IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 > EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 > AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: > IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 > EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 > AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T > > Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode? I'm

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: > I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not > sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the > AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: > >> I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not >> sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the >> AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? > > It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine.

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: > I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not > sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the > AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMA

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Danial Thom
--- "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw > my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. > Now, is there a way to rebuild world with > 64-bit support from there? > > Thanks, > Mike Everything I've tested runs slower in 64-bit mode (mainly b

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. > Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Hi Mike, I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of th

migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of geni