Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Moran
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 23), Andrew Moran said: I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these,

Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy ___

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Thank you. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I increase the kernel memory. I don't

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Andrew Moran said: I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:59:21PM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: Thank you. You're welcome! Please don't top post; it destroys the flow of the conversation. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I