6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?
Oliver Fromme
olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Tue Nov 14 03:59:31 PST 2006
Olivier Mueller wrote:
> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > And you absolutely have no option of running FreeBSD/amd64 on
> > them? What a PITA! :-)
>
> Ehm well, I must admit I never tried that, for a simple (and silly?)
> reason: freebsd installation selects the i386 SMP kernel by default...
>
> But of course if you (and Mike Jakubik) strongly suggest it would be a
> good idea, why not, I will give a try asap :-) Any special thing I
> should take care of when switching from the i686 kernel to the amd64
> one?
The easiest way is to re-install with an /amd64 ISO.
> Will the systems be quicker this way,
When addressing more than 4 GB of physical RAM, a native
64bit system is certainly more efficient (hence quicker)
than the PAE kludge.
> or will it "just" help with this 4GB memory limit?
Yes it will. With /amd64, the address space is larger
than 4 GB. With /i386, it is always limited to 4 GB,
no matter if you use PAE or not. (Actually the address
space for user processes is even more limited: 4 GB
minus the kernel's address space.)
Best regards
Oliver
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