Thanks very much for the explanation Thomas... I look forward to hearing how your next attempt goes... :)
On 2013-11-16 2:19 AM, Thomas Eckardt <[email protected]> wrote: > 64 Bit was my first try on FreeBSD. I gave up at the point, where I was > unable to terminate the assp process using 'kill -2 pid'. I was also > running in to several problems with Perl modules that are using XS-code. > Building the i386 variant, I was running in to the same 'kill ..' problem > - wich was solved by a major logic and code redesign in assp.pl. After > that changes , the systembuild was more or less 'a routine piece of work' > - the FreeBSD handbooks are helping . Btw. the Perl i386 with 64Bit INT > support (5.18.1) makes the same problems like the full 64Bit variant. > If I have some time left over , I'll try the 64Bit FreeBSD again. How ever > - such a system will require a large amount of memory (~ two times of the > i386) - without having any major runtime advantage. > There will be a performance advantage with the 64 Bit OS, but this is only > required for very havy loaded systems. I think only one percent (or less) > of the assp users will require this performance - all of them are ISP's - > and those should have the money to build PowerPC 7 RISC systems using AIX > (or similar) and they will have the knowledge or money to build the assp > system on there own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
