Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB of RAM. This should give you the speed boost your

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode? I'm asking

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/21/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64

migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Hi Mike, I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Danial Thom
--- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike Everything I've tested runs slower in 64-bit mode (mainly because of

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL