various rants about 7-currnet on AMD64
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Mon Oct 1 06:15:20 PDT 2007
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:30:59AM +0000, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> > * AMD64 should be recommended (or at least better documented) for all
> > dual-core machines
>
> This argument is flawed, in my opinion.
Right. I prefer to run i386 on the dual-core Athlon64 X2
that I got recently at the office. (It's running well with
RELENG_6 and 7-current, BTW.)
> I think a more appropriate phrase would be: "amd64 should be recommended
> for anyone that uses 4GB of RAM or more, and doesn't want to be hit by
> performance penalties induced by PAE on i386".
That's only half of the story ... Additionally, amd64
should be recommended for anyone who requires 4 GB of
address space and more, irrespective of the amount of
RAM. In particular, amd64 should be recommended if ZFS
is to be used.
Best regards
Oliver
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