Robert Watson wrote:
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server
application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs
? In my ISP centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via
apache, SMTP, AV and SPAM scanning
> RAM/address space is the big reason. In fact, applications
> compiled for 64-bits may well run slower than 32-bit ones
> running on the 64-bit kernel.
On the other hand we have 16 registers to play with on the AMD64
and they can be used far more orthogonally than on the i386.
That would cut d
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application
mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ? In my ISP
centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via apache, SMTP,
AV and SPAM scanning, and firewalls/routi
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 serv
At 12:48 PM 01/05/2005, 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
At 03:10 PM 01/05/2005, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:46:09AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mike Tancsa, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server
> application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit
> CPUs ?
It should b
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:46:09AM -0400 I heard the voice of
Mike Tancsa, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server
> application mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit
> CPUs ?
It should be noted that according to most benchmarks I've s
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 IS
A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application
mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ? 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
--- Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Arne WXrner wrote:
> > 3. The man page geom(4) of R5.3 says "The GEOM framework
> > provides an infrastructure in which "classes" can per-
> > form transformations on disk I/O requests on their path
> > from the upper kernel
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Arne WXrner wrote:
3. The man page geom(4) of R5.3 says "The GEOM framework
provides an infrastructure in which "classes" can per-
form transformations on disk I/O requests on their path
from the upper kernel to the device drivers and back.
Could it be, that geom slows so
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