On Sunday 11 June 2006 18:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Another example - I typically build applications on systems with a lot less memory than my servers. Maybe 512M, maybe 1Gb. So definitely without PAE. But these applications run fine on my servers with a lot more memory, without knowing anything about it. After all, their address space has not changed. It's still 4Gb per process, perhaps with a 3Gb/1Gb split for user/kernel.
I suspect you and James are at cross purposes here. Your applications continue to work because they are still using at most 4GB memory space, which is the linux maximum, even on a kernel with PAE I suspect James is talking about an application that uses more than that amount - one that actually uses PAE itself. This is not the default in linux, only the kernel is PAE aware, so applications on 32 bit systems are stuck with the 4GB limit -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com