my benchmarking with apache shows that it does seem to run faster on 32 bit Xeon than 64 bit Opterons. PHP ran a bit faster on the Opterons, but nothing major.
Ray At 12:48 PM 5/1/2005 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: | Mike Tancsa wrote: | > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application | > mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ? | | Databases. Big ones, anyway. Other than that, not much, unless you're | running processes which would like to use more than 2GB of RAM. | | > In my ISP centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via apache, | > SMTP, AV and SPAM scanning, and firewalls/routing. Apart from larger RAM, | > why would these benefit from the 64bit world ? Or would they ? | | None of these tasks would benefit much from 64-bit computing; many of them | might even run faster in 32-bit mode than in 64-bit mode. | | -- | -Chuck | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" | | _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
