64bit CPUs

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Sun May 1 16:42:19 PDT 2005


At 12:48 PM 01/05/2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application 
>>mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ?
>
>Databases.  Big ones, anyway.  Other than that, not much, unless you're 
>running processes which would like to use more than 2GB of RAM.

Thanks!  I was worried I was missing something obvious in all the 64bit 
excitement.  For my apps where I cant balance across multiple machines or 
where space is an issue, dual core CPUs I think might be more interesting 
to look at in a few months.

         ---Mike 



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