24.05.2018 3:22, Brooks Davis wrote: >>> Except for old computers and old software that segfaults on 64-bit, how >>> many people still use i386? >>> Full disclosure: I'd like to see i386 deorbited before I retire. >> Plese don't. I routinely use FreeBSD11/i386 for cheap VPS hosts having less >> than 2G memory >> because amd64 has noticeable overhead. I even have ZFS-only i386 VPS, here >> is live example with 1G only: >> >> Mem: 10M Active, 69M Inact, 230M Wired, 685M Free >> ARC: 75M Total, 1953K MFU, 31M MRU, 172K Anon, 592K Header, 42M Other >> 3500K Compressed, 29M Uncompressed, 8.61:1 Ratio >> Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free >> >> The VPS has only 20G of disk space and ZFS compression gives >> compressratio 2.22x for ports, 2.51x for src, 2.29x for obj >> and 1.95x for installed i386 system plus other software and data. > > I think we're quite a ways from being ready to axe i386. > > For VPS applications, we should probably get x32 support in place which > should give us the best of both worlds. > > That said, we either need to rev the i386 ABI to use a 64-bit time_t or > kill it in the not to distant future or we risk embedded systems failing > in place in 2038. If we assume a 15 year life for most equipment to > fail electrically or mechanically that says FreeBSD 13 shouldn't support > the current i386 ABI.
Why everyone's talking of hardware only? FreeBSD/i386 as virtual machine guest with memory-intensive kernel subsystems like ZFS and/or networking tasks using plenty of mbufs benefits significantly comparing with amd64 version. It runs just fine, why even consider killing it? _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
