Re: appropriate 64 bit version?

2008-06-06 Thread Bill Moran
in 64-bit, with using the Intel Quad 2.5Ghz Xeon, but I am unsure as to which version I should be downloading. For plesk, I need to use version 6.1 and had read somewhere that I would use the AMD 64-bit version, can you confirm if this is correct for an Intel processor? A descriptive

RE: appropriate 64 bit version?

2008-06-06 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
The version is called amd64 because AMD published their spec first. (FYI) the thing I have actually wondered is why i386 and amd64 are used as the naming convention instead of x86 and x86-64 or x64 -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: appropriate 64 bit version?

2008-06-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:13:16PM -0400, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: The version is called amd64 because AMD published their spec first. (FYI) the thing I have actually wondered is why i386 and amd64 are used as the naming convention instead of x86 and x86-64 or x64 Just because

How to run 32 bit FreeBSD compiled apps on 64 bit

2008-02-26 Thread navneet Upadhyay
out i shud install lib32 on my 64 bit machine. How to install lib32's and from where ?? Thanks, Navneet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 32 bit FreeBSD compiled binary coredumps on 64 bit(amd) FreeBSD

2008-02-20 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
: The problem is in the call retval = sysctl(mib, 4, kp, sz, NULL, 0); where sz is size of kp and where kp is a structure of type kinfo_proc. The size of this structure on 32bit system is 768 and on 64 bit system is 1088. The call works on 32 bit system but when run on 64 bit system it coredumps , because

Re: 32 bit FreeBSD compiled binary coredumps on 64 bit(amd) FreeBSD

2008-02-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If i hardcode the sz to 1088 then it works on amd64 systems , how do i deal with it. I am anticipating lot of coredumps like that, what is a generic solution for such kinds of problems. to compile both versions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Can anyone tell how do we handle this situation??? Is there any way or i have to compile my code on 64 bit machine?? what's a problem to compile on 64-bit machine? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-19 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Binary compiled on 32 bit not running on 64 bit machine. Actually i am using *sysctl* call and the *kinfo_proc* structure from user.hin include/sys , size of structure on 32bit is 768 and on 64 bit is around 1180 and thats why the call is failing and application coredumping. Can anyone tell how

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-19 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2008 15:08:12 schrieb Wojciech Puchar: Can anyone tell how do we handle this situation??? Is there any way or i have to compile my code on 64 bit machine?? what's a problem to compile on 64-bit machine? Ugh, there can be lots of problems, at least if the original

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-19 Thread navneet Upadhyay
a machine will be required (always) , i think i figured it out , ineed to compile them using *amd64 *instead of i386 . On 2/19/08, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell how do we handle this situation??? Is there any way or i have to compile my code on 64 bit

32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Hi , For our product we generally compile the binaries on 32 bit systems and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Norman Maurer
Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 20:42 +0530 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: it and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump.* Any known reasons, do we have

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi , For our product we generally compile the binaries on 32 bit systems and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread navneet Upadhyay
I checked in usr/local/ and didnt find the lib32 folder, so i guess they are nt installed . Why do i need them ? can u put some light on it ? On 2/18/08, Norman Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 20:42 +0530 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: it and 64 bit RHEL. We

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread navneet Upadhyay
bit systems and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
18.02.2008, 20:42 +0530 schrieb navneet Upadhyay: it and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump.* Any known reasons, do we have to compile

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump.* no idea. i use

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
navneet Upadhyay wrote: On 2/18/08, Dominic Fandrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi , For our product we generally compile the binaries on 32 bit systems and use them for both 32 and 64 bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We

Building Xorg as 32 Bit binaries on 64 Bit system?

2008-02-18 Thread Christian Walther
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 7 on an Athlon64 based machine with a 64 bit kernel. The machine is supposed to be a server (at home) so there's basically no Xorg involved. Now I want to monitor what the system is doing and I decided to install sysutils/conky from ports. The problem is that conky crashes

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread navneet Upadhyay
I didnt get what do you mean. Do you mean : I should install lib32 on freeBSD and then rebuild my applications in order to make it work on 32 and 64 bit systems . rite now I have built my app on 32 bit system (which is not having lib32 installed), it works on 32 bit freebsd but fails on 64 bit

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Dominic Fandrey
bit systems. like we have same binaries for 32 bit and 64 bit RHEL. We are porting the product to FreeBSD and when we tried the same, i.erunning binaries compiled on 32 bit FreeBSD 6.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD system they produce *core dump.* Any known reasons, do we have to compile binaries on 64

Synaptics Touchpad doesn't work on 64-bit FreeBSD

2007-11-11 Thread Thomas Hobbes
Hi, my Synaptics touchpad doesn't work on FreeBSD 200710 amd64. I've add hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 to my /boot/loader.conf and I've compiled x11-drivers/synaptics and x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse. My dmesg says: psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED] psm0: model Synaptics

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-29 Thread eculp
compiled in sys/i386. amd64 and i386 are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64 and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
are different platforms in the same sense that sparc64 and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp
kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. No, you do not *need* to compile for 64-bit apps. Are you sure about

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread RW
are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms. ___ freebsd

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp
in the same sense that sparc64 and ppc are different platforms. An AMD 64 is not back-compatible to pentium pro code when it's in 64-bit mode. Whilst 32-bit binaries can be run on the amd64 platform, they need special handling, you can't just mix-and-match world and kernel platforms. Thanks, RW. I had

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-28 Thread eculp
box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. No, you do not *need* to compile for 64-bit apps

Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp
was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from

Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp
was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread eculp
building a daily kernel with the old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test only to find out that a simple make

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread RW
configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. Are you sure about that? there are few compelling reasons to go to 64-bit, if you already have a working system. As far as performance is concerned, it may go either way. Right now all

Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? Can I use the AMD64 build? Is there anything I should be careful when rebuilding from source after a cvsup? Can I just use the AMD64 build and CPUTYPE=nocona in /etc/make.conf ? Thanks in advance

Re: Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? AMD64 kernel, SMP variant. Specific compiler optimizations will not yield high enough benefits to be generally useful but it probably[*] won't hurt you

Re: Cannot Load FreeBSD 6.2 64 bit and maybe other versions as well

2006-12-12 Thread Y Sidhu
An update for some who may care. I tried loading Live Linux distros: Puppy, DSL and STD. They load fine but don't see a network interface. Also installed Fedora 5 Linux Distro and same - no ethernet interface seen. It has been a while but I recall that Windows XP pro will not boot. Anybody have

Re: Cannot Load FreeBSD 6.2 64 bit and maybe other versions as well

2006-12-12 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 2006/12/12 11:42, Y Sidhu seems to have typed: a. SuperMicro X7DBR-8+ / X7DBR-I+ Seems that others have had problems with SuperMicro boards: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html *** QUOTE *** Boots stock SMP kernel. UP kernel must be booted in safe mode *** END QUOTE

Cannot Load FreeBSD 6.2 64 bit and maybe other versions as well

2006-12-11 Thread Y Sidhu
I am a newbie and have gone though past posts and have been looking at the last couple of weeks of posts go by. I have not seen anything similar to my problem. I cannot load an OS except under ACPI-Disabled. I can boot into safe mode, but cannot configure a working network interface. Therefore, I

FreeBSD 64-bit(EM64T) and Hyperthreading support

2006-11-07 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I just purchased a new Intel Pentium 4(3.06Ghz), 533 Mhz FSB, supporting EM64T (as written in the box). It has 1 MB cache size, package type = LGA 775, processor number = 524 Features: (as shown in the dropdown combo box when cpu speed =3.06, processor number = 524)

Re: FreeBSD 64-bit(EM64T) and Hyperthreading support

2006-11-07 Thread Fluffles
You Wrote: I wonder if I could benefit from these features when running AMD64 version. On i386 install, I just enabled SMP and the OS happilly reported 2 logical cpus, however, I'm not sure how I will build a particular application to benefit from this hyperthreading thing. Not all

Re: Plesk and FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit getting frustrating

2006-09-17 Thread ovidiu ene
, and are trying to get plesk installed. But plesk isn't supported for FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit version yet, so it has been hard work to try trick it. Now I want to trick the uname command to show the version needed for plesk installation. Any one having an easy and pretty safe way to do this? This is the last

Re: Plesk and FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit getting frustrating

2006-09-17 Thread Dan Schultzer
to get plesk installed. But plesk isn't supported for FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit version yet, so it has been hard work to try trick it. Now I want to trick the uname command to show the version needed for plesk installation. Any one having an easy and pretty safe way to do this? This is the last try

Plesk and FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit getting frustrating

2006-09-16 Thread Dan Schultzer
Hello I've got FreeBSD 6.1 installed on a Sun Fire X2100 server, and are trying to get plesk installed. But plesk isn't supported for FreeBSD 6.1 64-bit version yet, so it has been hard work to try trick it. Now I want to trick the uname command to show the version needed for plesk

Clevo D900K and 64 bit FreeBSD support???

2006-09-08 Thread backyard
Processor 3700+/4000+ #12288; (2.20~2.40GHz, 1MB L2 cache, socket 939) Core Logic #12290;VIA K8T890CE + VT8237R Display #12290;17.1 WXGA (1440x900) TFT / 17.1 WSXGA+ (1680x1050) / 17.1 WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Memory #12290;Two 64-bit wide DDR data channels #12290;Two 200-pin SODIMM sockets

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-28 Thread Martin Miedema
. With default FreeBSD/i386 - it will be at least 30%. just because it's not just 64-bit addresses, but twice the registers (r8-r15) allowing C compiler to generate more efficient code. For now AMD64 is the fastest and cheapest architecture - at least with AMD processors, not intel clones. (YES now intel

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread ke han
Generally speaking, mail and file server are not RAM intensive. A 32 proc can directly address 4GB RAM (2**32). FreeBSD allows you to address more than 4GB on a 32 bit proc but limited to 4GB max per process. The actual per process limit will be a bit less, I think. A 64 bit proc can

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
64-bit addresses, but twice the registers (r8-r15) allowing C compiler to generate more efficient code. For now AMD64 is the fastest and cheapest architecture - at least with AMD processors, not intel clones. (YES now intel makes clones of AMD processors

Re: Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-27 Thread ke han
/i386 - it will be at least 30%. just because it's not just 64-bit addresses, but twice the registers (r8-r15) allowing C compiler to generate more efficient code. For now AMD64 is the fastest and cheapest architecture - at least with AMD processors, not intel clones. (YES now intel makes

Intel 64bit / AMD 64 bit advantage

2006-08-25 Thread Martin Miedema
I hope that I'm not starting some sort of holy war with this question, but here I'll go. I'm planning to set-up some e-mail / file servers running FreeBSD 6.1 in the near future and I'm wondering if it will be worth the cost to use 64 but CPU's for this. Also I would like to know which

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-23 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:06, pete wright wrote: Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? Also, if you are running a Unix like OS why use VNC? You can achive %90 of the same features (with less of a memory/cpu impact) by running X apps remotely. -pete How do you do

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-23 Thread Tarc
screen? /usr/port/sysutils/screen My users need up to 20 instances of a graphical analysis package which has a text-based control window that spawns two graphical windows. They run a window manager with 24 virtual desktops, each running an instance of this program. As much as I love

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB of RAM. This should give you the speed boost your

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/23/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems to be if you need greater then 4GB

Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lane
G'day everyone, I recently had to replace a disk and took the opportunity to upgrade from 5-stable to 6-stable. I also changed from the 32-bit to the 64-bit version. I have a dual Opteron server. VNC installed from ports (4.2.1) doesn't work on the 64-bit machine. The same version installed

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Savovski
I have the same ,problem,But I have never run on other version,I use RELENG_6_1, AMD64 On 6/22/06, Greg Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day everyone, I recently had to replace a disk and took the opportunity to upgrade from 5-stable to 6-stable. I also changed from the 32-bit to the 64-bit

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lane
) work all right. YMMV. I have tried to make NXWindows work on amd64 but there is just too much patching that needs to be done for my meager skills. Thanks for the info. I had figured something like this. I installed the 64-bit system anticipating a future memory upgrade from the current 4GB

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread pete wright
On 6/22/06, Greg Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:06:46PM -0700, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? Thanks for the suggestion. I thought about doing that, but there is still other essential software that is not 64

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lane
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:06:46PM -0700, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try to build/install a 32bit version of VNC? Thanks for the suggestion. I thought about doing that, but there is still other essential software that is not 64-bit clean and our entire group needs

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread Greg Lane
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:15:47PM -0700, pete wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, so there is no way to run the app's which are not 64bit clean in 32bit mode in your environment? I did test one of them. It works, but I don't have time to mess with all of them, and finding the 32-bit

Re: Does anyone run VNC with 64-bit FreeBSD (amd64)?

2006-06-22 Thread pete wright
using gtk) crash the VNC server, and some (KDE) work all right. YMMV. I have tried to make NXWindows work on amd64 but there is just too much patching that needs to be done for my meager skills. Thanks for the info. I had figured something like this. I installed the 64-bit system anticipating

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/20/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 21/06/06 Nikolas Britton said: IA64 = Itanium, Itanium2 = FreeBSD/ia64 EM64T = Intel CPUs with AMD64 (P4, Xeon, etc.) = FreeBSD/amd64 AMD64 = Opteron, Athlon 64, Turion 64, Sempron 64 = FreeBSD/amd64 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode? I'm asking

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
/EM64T Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode? I'm asking that myself. I'd like to do comparisons with and without 64-bit support. The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
/EM64T Why do you need to run in 64-bit mode? I'm asking that myself. I'd like to do comparisons with and without 64-bit support. The consensus seems to be that FreeBSD/amd64 is a tad slower then FreeBSD/i386 because it has to deal with 32 extra bits. The primary reason to use FreeBSD/amd64 seems

migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Hi Mike, I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Danial Thom
--- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it. Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there? Thanks, Mike Everything I've tested runs slower in 64-bit mode (mainly because

Re: migrating to 64-bit

2006-06-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/06/06 Andy Reitz said: I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD? It's a 64-bit P4. My i386 5.4 install works fine. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

ports net-snmp to support 64-bit snmp counter

2006-05-03 Thread adrian kok
Hi All I am running freebsd 4.11 release and want to have net-snmp to support 64 bit counter I deinstall the net-snmp but don't know how to re-complie the port to support --enable-mfd-rewrites I changed the Makefile and recomplied it and it doesn't work snmpwalk -v 2c -c x localhost

Re: ports net-snmp to support 64-bit snmp counter

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 03), adrian kok said: I am running freebsd 4.11 release and want to have net-snmp to support 64 bit counter FreeBSD's internal network counters are 32-bit, so it won't help you. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ports net-snmp to support 64-bit snmp counter

2006-05-03 Thread adrian kok
running freebsd 4.11 release and want to have net-snmp to support 64 bit counter FreeBSD's internal network counters are 32-bit, so it won't help you. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ports net-snmp to support 64-bit snmp counter

2006-05-03 Thread Dan Nelson
the switch ports they are plugged into. I use Cisco and HP switches and they have supported 64-bit SNMP counters for years. For servers attached to unmanaged switches, I poll their 32-bit counters every minute and accept that I can't graph very high traffic rates. -- Dan Nelson

linux compatibility on 64 bit FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0

2006-02-20 Thread Philip Sydney Lavers
Gentlemen, I have spent several days reading all the documentation I can find but no reference to my problem. linux compatibility: # kldload linux# OR linux_enable=YES both work on my FreeBSD 5.4 32 bit athlon. On my opteron and athlon64 machines with FreeBSD 5.4 or 6.0 (both 64 bit

Questions on SMP and 64 bit

2006-01-26 Thread Joseph Vella
I'm buying a new computer, and am thinking of the new dual core AMD X2. I'm not sure I want to run 64 bit kernel yet, because of driver support and things like flash, and video, etc.. Will this processor still be as fast as a 32 bit if I use i386 kernel? Do I have to use a SMP kernel

64 Bit Questions

2006-01-18 Thread Anthony Dematteo
I have a couple questions about the AMD64 Project. 1. They page mentions that there is multiprocessor support. Does this include the dual core processors? Will the OS dispatch processes and threads to each core? 2. While the OS will use the 64 bit mode, will the applications still run

Re: 64 Bit Questions

2006-01-18 Thread Albert Shih
Le 18/01/2006 à 17:40:00-0500, Anthony Dematteo a écrit I have a couple questions about the AMD64 Project. 1. They page mentions that there is multiprocessor support. Does this include the dual core processors? Will the OS dispatch processes and threads to each core? I only can answer

Re: 64 Bit Questions

2006-01-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
if I'm the right person to answer this in great technical detail, but I think the answer is 'yes' to both questions. 2. While the OS will use the 64 bit mode, will the applications still run in the compatibly mode? Not necessarily. By default the base system and any applications you compile

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-30 Thread Amandeep
- From: Amandeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format the partitions

Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Amandeep
Hi all, I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format the partitions it says: unable to find

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Amandeep
Hi guys, Anyone??? Amandeep wrote: Hi all, I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Steven Hartland
PROTECTED] I am instalaling FreeBSD 5.3 AMD 64 bit with 6- 200GB drives. Using Higpoint 1820A controller and doing RAID 10. I am using drivers for the card from Highpoint Web. The problem is when I make the partitions and the machine tries to format the partitions it says: unable to find

Re: Error installing FreeBSd 5.3 AMD 64 bit-Highpoint 1820A

2005-05-23 Thread Bjoern Koenig
Hello, I think it's a question for the highpoint support. It's their product and their driver. Here are some instant hints: - read the PDF carefully and follow the instructions strictly - use the BIOS in the tarball; nothing else!! Regards Björn

64 bit FreeBSD for number crunching

2004-11-29 Thread Michael Hopkins, Hopkins Research
ones here... http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_11869% 5E11880,00.html 2) Is there any performance penalty to (1) if I can. 3) Is the 64 bit AMD port of FreeBSD stable? Many thanks for your time Michael

Re: 64 bit FreeBSD for number crunching

2004-11-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:44:12PM +, Michael Hopkins, Hopkins Research wrote: 3) Is the 64 bit AMD port of FreeBSD stable? Yes, remarkably so. Kris pgpZj8CScgJmj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Intel Xeon 64 Bit Hardware Question

2004-11-09 Thread Sean Murphy
Will FreeBSD 5.3 Run on this Hardware Configuration CPU Network Cards I would also like to Hardware Raid 5 with the Intel Raid Card Would this be seamless to FreeBSD? 5U Intel SC5300 Rack Mount Black Dual Intel CPU Xeon 3GHz CPU, 64-bit, 1mb cache Intel Gigabit Ethernet x 2 2 GB ECC memory 4 144GB

advice 64 bit architecture

2004-10-14 Thread eodyna
hi everyone. i just want to know if anyone has had any major issues running freebsd on 64bit architecture. i am wanting to buy a asus a8v deluxe - 939 via k8t800 pro motherboard with a amd athlon64 939 3500+ chip. If anyone has any experience, id love to listen to your do's and don'ts.

Re: advice 64 bit architecture

2004-10-14 Thread jason
eodyna wrote: hi everyone. i just want to know if anyone has had any major issues running freebsd on 64bit architecture. i am wanting to buy a asus a8v deluxe - 939 via k8t800 pro motherboard with a amd athlon64 939 3500+ chip. If anyone has any experience, id love to listen to your do's and

Re: 64-bit arithmetic in scripts?

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew
into a current manpage from www.freebsd.org, and it says something about 4.x compatibility. What is the best way to go if I need to write scripts now, but I'm planning to switch to 5.x later? Can I upgrade expr(1) now? If not, what should I do? In 4.x, expr does 64-bit math by default

64-bit arithmetic in scripts?

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew
Hi, I'm counting traffic with ipfw and shell scripts. Is there a way to use more than 32-bit numbers in shell arithmetic? Regards, Andrew P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: 64-bit arithmetic in scripts?

2004-09-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 30), Andrew said: I'm counting traffic with ipfw and shell scripts. Is there a way to use more than 32-bit numbers in shell arithmetic? POSIX only requires signed long support in the shell, but FreeBSD's expr command has a -e flag that will let it do 64-bit math

Re: 64-bit arithmetic in scripts?

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew
it do 64-bit math: $ echo $(( 65536*65536 )) 0 $ echo $(expr 65536 * 65536) 0 $ echo $(expr -e 65536 * 65536) 4294967296 bash, ksh93 (but not pdksh), and zsh's shell arithmetic are all 64-bit, also. Thanks! I haven't thought about using expr. How come that my expr(1) manpage has nothing

Re: 64-bit arithmetic in scripts?

2004-09-30 Thread Dan Nelson
something about 4.x compatibility. What is the best way to go if I need to write scripts now, but I'm planning to switch to 5.x later? Can I upgrade expr(1) now? If not, what should I do? In 4.x, expr does 64-bit math by default. Apparently POSIX requires that expr use whatever the systems

Re: support 64 bit CPU

2004-08-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] adrian kok wrote: Hi all Can freebsd run on 64 bit CPU? Thank you very much Which 64bit CPU? Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : t: 1-888-327-6330 http://www.jvds.com - Root on your own box http://www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company http://jvdsblog.jvds.com

Re: support 64 bit CPU

2004-08-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 07:32:01PM +0800, adrian kok wrote: Can freebsd run on 64 bit CPU? Yes. Take your pick of AMD64, UltraSparc, Alpha, IA64 and then there's a bunch of other architectures in progress, including MIPS and PPC. But I'm perplexed as to why you need to ask here when

Re: [OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

2004-08-01 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Bill Moran wrote: I'm inheriting some hardware. These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD when I'm done) I guess my question is hardware-related. I mean, I can't believe this worked! Has

[OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

2004-07-30 Thread Bill Moran
I'm inheriting some hardware. These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD when I'm done) I guess my question is hardware-related. I mean, I can't believe this worked! Has anyone else

Re: [OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

2004-07-30 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 30), Bill Moran said: I'm inheriting some hardware. These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD when I'm done) I guess my question is hardware-related. I

Re: [OT] 64-bit PCI in 32-bit slots??? crazy??

2004-07-30 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:32:30PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: I'm inheriting some hardware. These boards have 64-bit PCI SATA cards jammed in 32-bit PCI slots. Oddly enough, the boxen boot and start Linux (which will be replaced with FreeBSD when I'm done) I guess my question is hardware

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