Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:05:26AM -0700, ray at redshift.com wrote:
> 
> I've also heard the AMD's perform well under heavy database
> load - although I have not put any machine into production yet.  
> 
> As you say, you get a new shinney AMD and run to put a 64 bit
> OS on it thinking it will smoke the tires.  But once you test
> it and start thinking about it, the 32 bit running faster makes
> sense.  Maybe there needs to be a 20 bit OS :-)
> 

Drop 8 GB of memory into the box and see how the 32-bit
FreeBSD performs in comparison to the 64-bit FreeBSD
when your process consumes greater than 4GB of memory.

-- 
Steve