i386 vs amd64

[Bill Tillman]

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 From: Fleuriot Damien <ml at my.gd>
To: birdfund at yahoo.com 
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64
 


On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin <birdfund at yahoo.com> wrote:

> About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup.   A few
> years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating
> as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were 
> large annoyance too.
> 
> Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best off to
> stick with i386 and PAE or is the amd64 version finally on a par or
> close enough that I would not likely have many issues like in the past?
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts/(recent) experiences.


What port was that ?

I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386.

From a professional point of view, we're using over 60 amd64 fbsd 8.0 8.1 8.2 and 8.3 boxes at work and they work just fine.


I for one can recommend the 64 bits version.

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I have been using amd64 for at least 5 years now on mulitple systems and I don't know of any troubles like you're defining. And if you're using 8 GB of RAM then why waste 4 GB. i386 will not see anything above 4 GB. I'd say at least give it a try before you relent.