Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-30 Thread Johan
On 11/28/05, Ian Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been running amd64 version since version 6 been out without any crashes. I am running on dell's 1850 and 2850 servers. Dell is using AMD now?? I couldn't find them on their website... ___

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-30 Thread Ian Lord
No it's intel based xeon processors, but since they use emt64 extensions, we can use the amd64 version of freebsd. At 06:32 2005-11-30, Johan wrote: On 11/28/05, Ian Lord mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been running amd64 version since version 6 been out without any

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-29 Thread Ian Lord
I've been running amd64 version since version 6 been out without any crashes. I am running on dell's 1850 and 2850 servers. On my part, the only problem I see in it, is that commercial vendors don't support it so in my case, I can't run zend accelerator and pdflib since they are precompiled

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
IA32 compat won't help you in this case since these two program are loadable module so you cannot load a ia32 module in a amd64 compiled application even with compatIA32 in the kernel. IA32 compatibility matters, but not at kernel level. being able to run linux/i386 binaries will be enough!

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-29 Thread Albert Shih
Le 28/11/2005 à 14:17:56-0500, Ian Lord a écrit I've been running amd64 version since version 6 been out without any crashes. And have you see some big performance increase ? I mean between amd64 version and i386 version of FreeBSD ? On my part, the only problem I see in it, is that

bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've read few articles on the net that FreeBSD/amd64 crashes very frequently, contrary to /i386. how much truth is in that? i would strongly prefer to run amd64 system on amd64 machine that i will buy this week. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-11-28 18:26, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've read few articles on the net that FreeBSD/amd64 crashes very frequently, contrary to /i386. Without specific references, all I can say is... that's crap. how much truth is in that? i would strongly prefer to run amd64 system

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:26:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i've read few articles on the net that FreeBSD/amd64 crashes very frequently, contrary to /i386. how much truth is in that? i would strongly prefer to run amd64 system on amd64 machine that i will buy this week. Sounds like

Re: bad instability on FreeBSD/amd64 6.0

2005-11-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've read few articles on the net that FreeBSD/amd64 crashes very frequently, contrary to /i386. how much truth is in that? i would strongly prefer to run amd64 system on amd64 machine that i will buy this week. Sounds like total crap to me. If you monitor the freebsd-amd64 mailing list you