Re: NetBSD on more than 16 cores?

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ignatios Souvatzis 
<presse%ycm-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:41:49PM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and support is for amd64, not i386.  No point to work on the later.
>> We ought to encourage the use of amd64 more these days.
>
> While for the question of massive multi-CPU machines this is probably not
> a problem, relatively small machines are punished a lot when using 64bit
> code running memory-hungry applications, like... cc1plus in certain
> situations, etc...

I thought NetBSD was about choosing the right platform for the job,
not arbitrary adoption of some new technology because someone else
says it's a good idea. That's one of the good things about supporting
so many hardware platforms.

That said, I think there are things that could be done to make the
transition from i386 to amd64 easier. But I haven't tried to do this
for years now. I should try again when the time is right. i386 works
fine for me for now :)

Andy