From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 08:56:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0230A16A412 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8770743C9D for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost.esiee.fr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 26C853658CC; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:37:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from secure.esiee.fr (secure.esiee.fr [147.215.1.19]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60DC3658C0; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:37:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from [147.215.1.21] (lisa.esiee.fr [147.215.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bonnetf) by secure.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1FD398CF; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:30:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4577D2DC.3060702@esiee.fr> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:37:48 +0100 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060828) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Peter A. Giessel" References: <45768F34.8020705@esiee.fr> <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4576F817.2000004@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:56:19 -0000 Peter A. Giessel wrote: > It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been > asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by > searching the archives. > > If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might > be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, > however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports > that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm > running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, > Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, > 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead of sendmail ) it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that will be integrated in 6.2 ... If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never did that but there is probably a way to do it :-) Thanks again -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet