[opensuse] Using 8 Gb with openSUSE
I want to thank Clayton for reminding me about the PAE kernel. Turns out it was installed and all I had to do was change the boot CD to give me a choice of default or PAE. I'm now using the PAE kernel and free shows 8Gb of memory. Thanks, Terry PS: I guess when I install 11.2 I should use the 64bit kernel. -- openSUSE 11.1 -- Kernel 2.6.27 -- GNU/Linux -- Mon 11/23/09 4:20pm up 0:01, 4 users, load average: 3.40, 0.91, 0.31 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Terry Eck <terry_eck@verizon.net> wrote:
I want to thank Clayton for reminding me about the PAE kernel. Turns out it was installed and all I had to do was change the boot CD to give me a choice of default or PAE. I'm now using the PAE kernel and free shows 8Gb of memory. Thanks, PS: I guess when I install 11.2 I should use the 64bit kernel.
I've been running 64bit/11.0 for a long time. It's very stable. The biggest pain is that the 64bit flashplayer is flakey and run at 100% cpu for no reason. 64bit systems have a flat memory map where 32bit/PAE has to page the RAM in and out of the upper area so it's slightly slower and less efficient. PAE is kind of a kludge, and if you do have a 64bit chip, I would highly recommend trying out the liveCD at least. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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