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Cc: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit?
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 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

This is workload-dependent.  Some workloads run more slowly on a 64-bit 
CPU, others faster.

Kris

 >, but
> 32-bit version should work fine too.
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