new to amd64

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 02:11:23PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> 	After years using i386, I finally installed amd64 and
> ... everything is just like I fondly remember.   :-)
> 	Thanks to all those who have made that happen.
> 	However, I'm still a little nervous about the things I don't
> know yet.  I'm about to build a custom kernel; would someone please
> take a look at the config file (appended) and tell me if there's
> anything I've added, or left out, that's going to break something?
> 

It would have been easier to read the config file if you 
had actually deleted the commented out device lines.

Additionally, the advice you seek depends on what you want
to do with the system.  You forgot those details.

If you are running any floating point intensive applications
and these applications are multithreaded, you may want to use
the 4BSD scheduler rathar than ULE.  The last time I tested
ULE with an MPI application, it display miserable performance
on a dual, quad-core opteron system.

-- 
Steve