On 10/9/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-09 19:34]: > >> then, an i386 kernel should perform considerably better than amd64 for > >> firewalling/routing/... > > > > That is surprising. What is the reason? > > we dunno really. it hasn't been benched in sometimesoit might not even > be true nay more, but last time the difference was dramatic. >
I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the other is just 32 bit :-( How about on sparc64 systems? do you get thwice the speed compared to its 32 bit counterpart? Thank you so much Kind Regards Siju
