AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective responses, but I am interested in them all. Thanks in

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread RW
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:09, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? The problems with amd64 are more to do with whether the

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:09:27AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? Stability of amd64 is excellent. # uptime

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Cor van Wandelen wrote: I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc.