From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 03:30:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01AD16A4DE for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:30:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E713143D4C for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:30:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FFFF4CE88 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vaulte.jumbuck.com (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0BA4CE86 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:31:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vaulte.jumbuck.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vaulte.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C795D8A037; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:30:52 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.46.102] (unknown [192.168.46.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vaulte.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C34F78A031; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:30:52 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <44DAA86C.3090700@thebeastie.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:30:52 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@bitfreak.org References: <004b01c6bab6$335d6210$0301000a@Thomas> <44D9028C.3020309@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <44D9028C.3020309@bitfreak.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Thomas Agersborg Subject: Re: Dell Server 2900 with the new Intel processor Woodcrest X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:30:57 -0000 freebsd@bitfreak.org wrote: > Thomas Agersborg wrote: > >> I want to purchase a Dell Server 2900 with these specifications > > <...> > >> Dual-Core 64-bit Intel Xeon processor 5160 > > <...> > >> 4GB (4x1GB) 667MHz FBD memory (max 32GB) > > <...> > >> is there any issues which I need to >> be aware of in regard to the server and FreeBSD? > > > You'll want (need) to run amd64 instead of i386. You can run i386, > but the 64-bit capabilities will go to waste. You also won't get to > use all of your 4 GB of RAM due to memory-mapping of hardware I/O > addresses. The amd64 version does not have these problems. All the > major software is now 64-bit clean, but you may have trouble with some > desktop-type software (mplayer) and other less-common ports. Beyond > that, all is good--PowerEdge+FreeBSD is an excellent combination. We > even have IPMI support! > _______________________________________________ Just a few extra notes I could add. Its possible to use just the PAE kernel config with i386 to get access to all your ram, I only do it because I need 1.4 Java which is only really available on i386 but most people would use the 1.5 Java instead, also I need the i386 Perl Oracle driver as there is no AMD64 version of that. Other then those I would just use the AMD64 FreeBSD. I did see a commit on that new Perc5 Raid card somewhere I don't know if its in 6.1Release or just 6stable so I guess the only risk is that may have to run 6-Stable till 6.2 Mike