AMD 64 3000

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/18/06, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody have any strong opinions on this for a freebsd 6.1 web server? We
> > are currently using a 2.40GHz celeron which is fairly slow. I'm hesitant
> > to switch to 64 bits, are there any gotchas for freeBSD?
>
> What are you doing that would make that seem slow?
> Are you sure it is the processor and not some other
> part that is the bottleneck, such as disk or NIC or
> your pipe to the outside world (ISP)?
>

He's probably running a big PHP web app... If so try eaccelerator
first, it's in ports under www/eaccelerator. It's an opcode cache for
PHP... should give you a major speed boost.


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