Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:06:09 -0600 From: Cesar Amaya <csar@123.com.sv> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16GB AMD Opteron-machine - AMD64 or PAE? Message-ID: <47DB04E1.20904@123.com.sv> In-Reply-To: <20080314162921.GA3930@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20080314162921.GA3930@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > 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? > > 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? > > Thanks in advance for any clue, > -ewald > Search for the subject "RAM not recognized". I have two 2 servers with Quad Core Intel-Xeon running FreeBSD-7.0-AMD64 and I had no problem at all. I installed several ports such as Samba, LDAP, Bind, Ntpd, Perl, Ruby, smbldap-tools. Regards!!!
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