Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )

[Vince]

Frank Bonnet wrote:
> Peter A. Giessel wrote:
> 
>> It depends on what you are going to do with it.  This question has been
>> asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by
>> searching the archives.
>>
>> If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might
>> be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64,
>> however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports
>> that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64.  I'm
>> running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2,
>> Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2,
>> 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV.
> 
> Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its
> configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead
> of sendmail )
> it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64
> 
> I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped
> with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but
> I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that
> will be integrated in 6.2 ...
> 
> If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never
> did
> that but there is probably a way to do it :-)
> 

you could try installing from the RC-1 images if your impatient. (ISOs
in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 on your favorite mirror)

Vince
> Thanks again