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Re: [SLE] 32-bit machines hit physical RAM limit at 4GB? -- rebuild kernel for 1GiB or less
  • From: Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:30:36 +0200
  • Message-id: <e6jj8s$9gm$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 18:26 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> I suspect you're right about the performance penalty, although I'd
>> like to know more about it, but the applications need know nothing
>> about PAE
>> whatsoever. The application address space does not change.
>
> If you have 1GiB of RAM or less, it's recommended you rebuild the
> kernel with the old 1G/3G model for a good 10-20% performance boost.

I thought that was standard in the SUSE-supplied kernel - I'll have to
check now.


/Per Jessen, Zürich


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