From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 28 18:29:07 2012 Return-Path: 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 B135180B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp.eutelia.it (mp1-smtp-6.eutelia.it [62.94.10.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C628FC16 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns2.biolchim.it (ip-188-188.sn2.eutelia.it [83.211.188.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eutelia.it (Eutelia) with ESMTP id D244A63712A for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:28:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-214-148.41-151.net24.it [151.41.148.214]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.biolchim.it (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qASISrDs007591 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:28:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qASISgFw005474 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:28:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <50B657DA.8050700@netfence.it> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:28:42 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64 References: <20121128123623.4A29.AA011270@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.1.2.13 X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (ns2.biolchim.it [192.168.2.203]); Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:28:55 +0100 (CET) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:29:07 -0000 On 11/28/12 18:49, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, mike miskulin wrote: > >> About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few >> years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating >> as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were >> large annoyance too. >> >> Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best off to >> stick with i386 and PAE or is the amd64 version finally on a par or >> close enough that I would not likely have many issues like in the past? >> >> Thanks for your thoughts/(recent) experiences. > > Do you use emulators/wine? If not, switch to amd64. In fact, even if > you do, switch to amd64 to use that 8G of memory. Building 32-bit Wine > on amd64 is a hassle, but packages are available and I think there is a > 64-bit port on the way. I heard valgrind is another... in case you are a developer. bye av.