On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Craig Millar wrote:
On 04/06/07 11:05 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
Frank Fiene wrote:
On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not?
I'll have a look at the BIOS.
I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and windows OS machines.
The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do with why I cannot find it any more...)
This article in the Guardian from last week suggests that anything over 3GB on a 32 bit machine is a waste of time:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091227,00.html
Yes, it is a problem with context switching and PAE i think. But this is the reason why i have a 64bit machine and a corresponding kernel! ;-) -- Frank Fiene / IT-Services Fon: +49 2526 29-6200 Fax: +49 2526 29-16-6200 mailto: ffiene@veka.com www.veka.com VEKA AG Dieselstr. 8 48324 Sendenhorst Deutschland/Germany Vorstand: Andreas Hartleif (Vorsitzender), Dr. Andreas W. Hillebrand Bonifatius Eichwald, Elke Hartleif, Dr. Werner Schuler Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Heinrich Laumann HRB 8282 AG Münster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org