Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

["Dmitry A. Ashkadov" <dmitry.ashkadov@xxxxxxxxx>]

04.01.2012 15:46, C пишет:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:30, Anton Aylward<opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Swapnil Bhartiya said the following on 01/04/2012 06:06 AM:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > openSUSE is showing only 3.9GB of RAM whereas I have 8GB installed on
> > > the system. Sometimes FF takes upto 800MG which slows the browser. I
> > > have installed 64bit version which should show full RAM. It shows OK
> > > under Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > Sysinfo:/
> > >
> > > OS:  Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64
> > Try running the "-PAE" version of the kernel.
> > Read the kernel notes as to why you should do that if you have more than
> > 4G of memory.
> Ummmmm... why would he want to run a 32-bit PAE kernel?  He's already
> running a 64-bit kernel.  You only need PAE on 32 bit kernels to get
> beyond the 4GB memory addressing limitation... this limitation (at
> 4GB) doesn't exist on 64 bit kernels.
>
> C.
I think 64bit kernel is required when you use applications which eats 
more 2 Gb of memory. I think using of pae kernel saves memory, because 
you run 32bit applications which require less memory than 64bit ones.
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