31 May
2008
31 May
'08
13:13
* Per Jessen <per@computer.org> [2008-05-31 14:22]:
I've just installed 11.0 RC1 on an old Pentium II with 384Mb RAM. The installer chose to install an SMP+PAE kernel, which I find pretty unusual? Any thoughts on why?
Because your processor *has* PAE. PAE is not only more than 4 GiB physical address space but also the "no execute" bit. The "default" kernel is also SMP (since openSUSE 10.2, IIRC) because there's no "smp" kernel. I bet that you didn't notice any difference between "default" and "pae". Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Maintenance