Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:42:05 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE or 64bit? Message-ID: <48AC9DBD.90909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <56DA0457-3CAA-4B73-B35B-CE4DD624517C@poughkeepsieschools.org> References: <56DA0457-3CAA-4B73-B35B-CE4DD624517C@poughkeepsieschools.org>
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B. Cook wrote: > hey all, > > Looking for opinions.. > > We are going to be getting a server for drupal, running lighttpd and > php, as well as exim and SA with clamav, courier or dovecot, mysql 51.. > etc. > > Right now this setup does about 200G per month (we have two boxes) and > were looking at getting one box to do it all (business department > reasons) and assuming it would be doing double the work.. we would be > looking at a single box running 600GB max per month in traffic (about > 2Mb/sec).. > > We would be (hopefully) be going with sas drives instead of the sata we > have atm. Not trying to make this a debate about hardware but.. > > The question of at least 4G of ram came up.. and we starting debating > about PAE or just going with x64.. > > we would not be using zfs, we would be running RELENG_7_0. > > again, looking for opinions on PAE vs x64 for this type of setup. PAE would only be of potential benefit if you know you are running a workload that will benefit from running in 32-bit mode instead of 64. In your situation that is almost certainly not the case, so just go with amd64. Kris
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