Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

[Pete French]

> Note that using different slices may change your results.  All modern
> disks are faster near the outside (start of the disk) then the inside
> (I get more than 50% increase from inside to outside on one system).

I am thinking this will not be an issue, given that it is the performance
of the network interface which I am interested in :-)

-pete.