64-bit?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jun 14 17:28:14 UTC 2008


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 
>> I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well 
>> lately but there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and 
>> you're willing to share (as am I).
>>
>> This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 
>> 64-bit cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this 
>> have anything to do with the crashes?
> 
> you should run 64-bit version on 64-bit machine for performance

This is workload-dependent.  Some workloads run more slowly on a 64-bit 
CPU, others faster.

Kris

 >, but
> 32-bit version should work fine too.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
> 
> 



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list