On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello list, > I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64. > I have the following configuration: > > Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA > CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz > RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz > HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SATA II + 1 x 500 Gb SATA II > > This server runs as a web / mail server using: > Apache 2.2 > MySQL 5.0 > php 5 > Imagick > ghostscript > postfix + dovecot > openvpn > > Currently the server runs FBSD 7.0 i386 (RELENG_7). I plan to switch the > server to amd64 and use ZFS.
Apart from running ZFS I don't see a good reason to switch, unless you're regularly running out of address space. > I want your suggestions about the above applications and their stability on > 64 bit FBSD as well I don't think any of this is a problem on amd64. I can speak from experience that ImageMagick, ghostscript and postfix work fine on amd64. Apart from binary-only 32 bit stuff (which won't work), there are not many programs that have problems on amd64 in my experience. > I'm sorry if this is not the proper place to ask questions about FBSD amd64 > but i thought that here are many > people that might be using amd64 and come with some opinions. Thank you. There is an FreeBSD-amd64 list that might be usefull as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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