> It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports >4GB with the PAE > kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 > because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work > properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine as a GUI desktop > *AND* you have a nvidia video card you get almost 10 times better > performence with i386 because amd64 has a hard time reconizing PCI cards > installed "above" the 4gb limit (the phsycial addr is above RAM)
I could be wrong, but I thought that the nvidia binary driver did not work on a i386 PAE kernel. Sam Fourman Jr. Fourman Networks _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
