Re: 64bit CPUs
ray_at_redshift.com
Date: 05/02/05
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Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 17:08:02 -0700 To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
my benchmarking with apache shows that it does seem to run faster on 32 bit Xeon
than 64 bit Opterons. PHP ran a bit faster on the Opterons, but nothing major.
Ray
At 12:48 PM 5/1/2005 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
| 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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