Thanks to you all who replied ... I was already leaning to go for it ... now I'll do it for sure.
-Ed. On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Pete French <petefre...@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >> Today I am running my web and mysql server in FreeBSD i386 and I have >> the chance of moving to AMD64 architecture. >> >> This new server has 4 GB of RAM and 64 bit intel xeon cpus. >> >> Should I move to AMD64 or stick to i386 ? > > Yes, move to amd64 - if you are running a webserver and mysql then > this is a very good thing to do.We did this a couple of years ago and > have never looked back. Performance wise, you wont see it 20% faster like > some places claim, but you shoudl see somewhere around 8% - thats what I > got when I made some measurements (with some jobs being about 14% faster). > Also, if you run ZFS, that has been a lot smoother ride for me under amd64! > > The only point where I would advise being cautious if if you have > any home-written C code that you are running, as that will need to > be looked at carefully to find any possible 32->64 issues (though > -Wall on the compiler should find quite a few). > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
