On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:38:50PM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: > Hi all, > > I've had a server with corenetworks for quite a few years now but after > changes at corenetworks (their recent name change after acquisition by > another company, no current servers available, no communication about the > change of ownership with existing customers and an email exchange with > sales@), I've decided it is best jump ship now rather than wait for a hard > and possibly immediate deadline. > > I've just rented a server with 8GB of ram from m5hosting (based in large > part from the many recommendations I read while searching misc@ on > marc.info). Now the question is: i386 which is what I've always run on my 2 > GB ram server, or amd64? http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html and > http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html are curiously silent on the amount of ram > that can be accessed. If I have 8GB, I for sure want to use it all.
Then your only choice is amd64. PAE, as discussed below, is only used to enable NX, and not for "gigantisch memory i386". -ml > > I know there was a time when i386 was limited to the amount of ram it can > access (32 bit) but now amd64 has this caveat: "(Some Intel processors lack > support for important PAE NX bit, which means those machines will run > without any W^X support -- it is thus safer to run those machines in i386 > mode)." How does this fit with the recent work in 6.0+? How can I tell if > the Xeon 3220 processor has the PAE NX bit? I see nothing in the tech sheet > about PAE NX. > http://ark.intel.com/products/28034/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X3220-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB > > I have a little less than 2 weeks to make the transition so not a lot of > time for install and try. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions--dmesgs supplied once I get access. > > Jeff Ross > > Open Vistas Networking
