In message <5b05c6ac.6010...@grosbein.net>, Eugene Grosbein writes: > 24.05.2018 2:30, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > Except for old computers and old software that segfaults on 64-bit, how man > y people still use i386? > > > > Full disclosure: I'd like to see i386 deorbited before I retire. > > Plese don't. I routinely use FreeBSD11/i386 for cheap VPS hosts having less t > han 2G memory > because amd64 has noticeable overhead. I even have ZFS-only i386 VPS, here is > live example with 1G only: > > Mem: 10M Active, 69M Inact, 230M Wired, 685M Free > ARC: 75M Total, 1953K MFU, 31M MRU, 172K Anon, 592K Header, 42M Other > 3500K Compressed, 29M Uncompressed, 8.61:1 Ratio > Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free
I did say before I retire and I have no immediate plans. However dealing with 32-bit issues are a PITA and considering the causes of, IMO, most of the -CURRENT build failures over the past year, I suspect others may also feel the same way. Also, when there are i386 buildworld failures, people hardly complain. I do because my build scripts here build both (which I also do for ports). It is a fair bit of overhead. > > The VPS has only 20G of disk space and ZFS compression gives > compressratio 2.22x for ports, 2.51x for src, 2.29x for obj > and 1.95x for installed i386 system plus other software and data. I used a 768 MB Pentium M with compressed ZFS on a 40 GB disk, I think that was about 10 or 12 years ago. Documented on our wiki. That same machine is now my i386 testbed, used a few times a year. It now has 2 GB RAM and 150 GB disk. Same configuration, just a little bigger. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <c...@freebsd.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
