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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit?
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Ryan Coleman wrote:

> I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well lately but 
> there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and you're willing to 
> share (as am I).
>
> This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit cpu, 
> but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have anything to 
> do with the crashes?

you should run 64-bit version on 64-bit machine for performance, but 
32-bit version should work fine too.