From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 18 17:31:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406CC16A4DD for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92A843D4C for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7IHVN9j019499; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:31:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id k7IHVNdA019498; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:31:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200608181731.k7IHVNdA019498@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: robin@reportlab.com (Robin Becker) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:31:23 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <44E5F458.1070606@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD 64 3000 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: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:25 -0000 > > Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We > are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant > to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD? What are you doing that would make that seem slow? Are you sure it is the processor and not some other part that is the bottleneck, such as disk or NIC or your pipe to the outside world (ISP)? Unless you are doing some awful major crunching such as combining a major size database with heavy calculation on stuff that your server puts up, you could run a pretty major web site on 1/4 that CPU. Just feeding web pages, even with pretty good size forms shouldn't be a problem. So, yes, 64 bits should be OK, but I wonder if it would solve your speed problem - if some other part of the process is what is really holding things up. ////jerry > -- > Robin Becker > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >