Dear Ben, Thanks for the repeated explanations. > PAE was a stop-gap ... > ... [PAE] completely untenable. Is this a good time to withdraw PAE, to tell the world that it does not work? Maybe you should have had such comments in the code. Seems that amd64 now works "somewhat": on Debian the linux-image package is tricky to install, and linux-headers is even harder. Is there work being done to make this smoother? --- I am still not convinced by the "lowmem starvation" explanation: because then PAE should have worked fine on my 3GB machine; maybe I should also try PAE on my 512MB laptop. - Though, what do I know, have not yet found the buggy line of code I believe is lurking there... Thanks, Paul Paul Szabo psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>