Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:11:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 2850 & amd64? Message-ID: <20041120011102.GC20068@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <A1FEEC0DC78A5F3F3E56762B@rambutan.pingpong.net> References: <A1FEEC0DC78A5F3F3E56762B@rambutan.pingpong.net>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:32:57PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Before I build all ports needed, is there anything I need to set to make > the ports build 64 bit? All I've done now is to get the kernel built in > 64-bit mode. Is that enough to make all ports built in 64 bit? Shall I set > CPUTYPE to something? The CPUs are two Xeon, is that p4? Do not set CPUTYPE or set it to "nocona". "p4" will be interrupted as a 32-bit machine. > Is it even wise to use amd64? Is it stable enough? Docs say so, but > browsning this list gives me second thoughts? Quite stable. I think it is wise. :-) You will though have access to about 3000 less ports (IIRC) because some are i386-only or simply just don't compile, or run and segfault. > The machine shall be a general utility system, running email (cyrus) and > web (apache), postgresql and php, some simple java (tomcat). Java might be the deal breaker for you... Sun didn't port the JDK to 64-bit AMD64 until version 1.5. You'll have to investigate more how this will affect you. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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