On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:53 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote: > > > > However, mine has less than 4GB ram, so even is yum is making this > > decision, mine would not be a good candidate anyway... > > Apart of "Physical Address Extension" PAE kernels have supposedly a > better mechanism for handling page tables. I really cannot tell if > these differences are measurable but recently on lkml somebody > suggested that if your processer is PAE capable then you should be > running PAE kernel regardless of how much of memory you have on > board; especially if you do not have an overhead from "above 4Gig". > Add to that possible gains from i686 over i586. > > All of the above for me is "anecdotal". > > Michal PAE kernels also give you real NX (no execute) in all of its various names, instead of the emulated one in the non-pae kernel. Also, the PAE kernel is suitable to be ran as a Xen paravirt guest, whereas the other kernels are not. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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