migrate server on freebsd amd64

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Valentin Bud wrote:
> Hello list,
>  I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64.
> I have the following configuration:
> 
> Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA
> CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz
> RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz
> HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SATA II + 1 x 500 Gb SATA II
> 
> This server runs as a web / mail server using:
> Apache 2.2
> MySQL 5.0
> php 5
> Imagick
> ghostscript
> postfix + dovecot
> openvpn
> 
> Currently the server runs FBSD 7.0 i386 (RELENG_7). I plan to switch the
> server to amd64 and use ZFS.

Apart from running ZFS I don't see a good reason to switch, unless
you're regularly running out of address space.

> I want your suggestions about the above applications and their stability on
> 64 bit FBSD as well

I don't think any of this is a problem on amd64. I can speak from
experience that ImageMagick, ghostscript and postfix work fine on
amd64. Apart from binary-only 32 bit stuff (which won't work), there are
not many programs that have problems on amd64 in my experience.

>  I'm sorry if this is not the proper place to ask questions about FBSD amd64
> but i thought that here are many
> people that might be using amd64 and come with some opinions. Thank you.

There is an FreeBSD-amd64 list that might be usefull as well.

Roland
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