Mnay of you are saying that apart from the "theorethical" possibility of a code stalling the CPU, it should be perfectly okay to run the 167Mhz based UltraSparc II based systems (mine are Ultra Enterprise 2's) in 64-bit mode. To those that are'not aware how this is done, it is actually displayed at startup - to read the man pages on boot (4m) and is as simple as creating the boot.conf file under the /platform/<platform_name> directory with the following: ALLOW_64BIT_KERNEL_ON_UltraSPARC_1_CPU=true But as far as the benifits in doing so, it all depends on what your needs are. Mine was just the safety and stability part of it in addition to we are actually finding the 64-bit drivers and modules to be more robust than the 32-bit ones... Thanks all. NELSON > -----Original Message----- > I've a couple of U2's which I've upgraded to Solaris 8... I added a > boot.conf to force it to boot 64-bit always. Is there any danger to > forcing these systems to run the 64-bit kernel (which basically is 32/64 > anyways..)? > > Thanks. > > > NELSON _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed May 8 14:36:57 2002
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