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rowan · 03-27-2008, 04:54 PM

I installed FreeSBD amd64 recently (which despite the name is also for Intel processors) and was impressed. I never realised that it was a "tier 1" version, which basically means that it's expected to be stable and frequently updated like the 32 bit version. The only issue I had was with the onboard ethernet and occasional garbled packets but considering it was a Realtek chip (ie: usually crap) I wrote it off and installed an Intel PCI/X ethernet card in its place. Apart from that - and a different directory for compiling - it's virtually identical to its older 32 bit brother.

The mainboard itself only supports a maximim of 8GB but it's still nice to see more than the typical 3.5GB available...

Code:

usable memory = 8581259264 (8183 MB)
avail memory  = 8301932544 (7917 MB)

Mem: 3226M Active, 4047M Inact, 341M Wired, 285M Cache, 214M Buf, 9024K Free

  PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
33887 mysql      11   4    0  5181M  3191M sbwait 0  91:10 11.28% mysqld

(mysql is the reason I tried this OS. Under FreeBSD 32 bit the maximum memory I can get it to use is just under 2GB.)

03-27-2008, 04:54 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	Anyone using a 64 bit OS on their server? I installed FreeSBD amd64 recently (which despite the name is also for Intel processors) and was impressed. I never realised that it was a "tier 1" version, which basically means that it's expected to be stable and frequently updated like the 32 bit version. The only issue I had was with the onboard ethernet and occasional garbled packets but considering it was a Realtek chip (ie: usually crap) I wrote it off and installed an Intel PCI/X ethernet card in its place. Apart from that - and a different directory for compiling - it's virtually identical to its older 32 bit brother. The mainboard itself only supports a maximim of 8GB but it's still nice to see more than the typical 3.5GB available... Code: usable memory = 8581259264 (8183 MB) avail memory = 8301932544 (7917 MB) Mem: 3226M Active, 4047M Inact, 341M Wired, 285M Cache, 214M Buf, 9024K Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 33887 mysql 11 4 0 5181M 3191M sbwait 0 91:10 11.28% mysqld (mysql is the reason I tried this OS. Under FreeBSD 32 bit the maximum memory I can get it to use is just under 2GB.)