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Old 20th May 2008
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Originally Posted by TerryP View Post
Personally unless you have like 5+++ GB of system memory I doubt you are missing out on much using the i386 one instead of the amd64. That's just my opinion of things !!!


Even if you could run an AMD64 kernel on an i386 Userland it probably is not a good idea: FreeBSD == complete OS.
If you have 4Gb, you will miss almost 1G ;-) So it fits up to 3G.
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