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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:37:53 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 16GB AMD Opteron-machine - AMD64 or PAE?
Message-ID:  <20080314173704.B9402@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080314162921.GA3930@aurora.oekb.co.at>
References:  <20080314162921.GA3930@aurora.oekb.co.at>

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> For one of my machines (HP C-class Blade, 2 * AMD Opteron, 16GB RAM)
> should I go for the i386 or the amd64 Version of FreeBSD 7.0?

amd64 version was created exactly for x86-64 systems so why do you like to 
use another?


>
> As far as I've seen kernel and system isn't a problem with the amd64
> version, but how about ports?
>
> To be specific here's what I'd like to install on this machine:
>
> o) mrtg
> o) cacti
> o) nfsen
> o) named (caching DNS only)
> o) ntpd
> o) TSM-client (Client for IBM Backup-System running in Linux emulation mode)
>
> Does anybody have experience with any of these applications under the
> amd64-Version of FreeBSD? Caveats any?

linux emulation runs fine, named, ntpd, mrtg runs ok too

>
> Thanks in advance for any clue,
> -ewald
>
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