Re: 64bit CPUs

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 05/01/05

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    Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 12:48:33 -0400
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>

    Mike Tancsa wrote:
    > A somewhat obvious question to some perhaps, but what server application
    > mix on FreeBSD today sees an improvement using 64bit CPUs ?

    Databases. Big ones, anyway. Other than that, not much, unless you're
    running processes which would like to use more than 2GB of RAM.

    > In my ISP centric world, my big apps are BIND, IMAP/POP3, httpd via apache,
    > SMTP, AV and SPAM scanning, and firewalls/routing. Apart from larger RAM,
    > why would these benefit from the 64bit world ? Or would they ?

    None of these tasks would benefit much from 64-bit computing; many of them
    might even run faster in 32-bit mode than in 64-bit mode. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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