amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system?

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 9:28 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>
> In summary, you need to rule out whether your issues are resulting
> from a poor choice of non-standard kernel options, or are actually
> bugs in FreeBSD.

Or are hardware faults.  I had no end of trouble with a certain  
motherboard (1 of 5 was stable), but have had zero problems with the  
one SunFire X4100 I have.  The quality control is a big issue.