AMD 64 3000

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I have this running.  Made a HUGE difference.  If it is indeed a  
PHP thing.

Chad

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