Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure
Adding some infos to the issue, plus partial answer… Main answer still needed !! Le 1 juil. 08 à 18:53, bsd a écrit : Hello folks, I have just baught brand new servers with an 8Gb memory attached to each of these server. I generaly use the freebsd-update procedure to update and apply patches to the system. Problem is the default kernel provided with freebsd-update does not seem to have the PAE support enabled by default. My question is: --- --- What will be the best way to upgrade smoothly my system and have my PAE support enabled? PAE seems to disable kld module used for example if you have a firewal such as ipf (and haven't compiled it in the kernel). --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions will apply to: - postfix - postgreSQL - amavisd-new - dovecot --- What procedure would you suggest to do that properly and on regular basis (every time a patch is issued). Thanks for your answer(s). Sincerly yours. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAE support using freebsd-update procedure
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 07:39:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: --- Wouldn't It be better to run amd64 instead of i386? I have seen that this will allow to take full capacity of the memory - on the other hand there seems to have restriction on the ports Can anyone let me know if these restrictions will apply to: - postfix - postgreSQL - amavisd-new - dovecot I think all of those will work just fine. You can check by inspecting the respective ports' Makefiles. If a port won't build on a particular platform, the Makefile will have that knowledge - there will be a flag called ONLY_FOR_ARCHS whose value will be set to a list of the platforms the port works on. lang/ezm3 is a good illustrative example: ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= alpha amd64 i386 sparc64 If you try to build the port on an unsupported platform, you'll get an error message and the build will halt. I don't use FreeBSD/AMD64, but I would think by now that most ports will work on it, particularly the type of things you mention above. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpv5jlWj6JD4.pgp Description: PGP signature
