Re: RAM limit?

["Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:57:34PM +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote:

> does the 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel support up to 6GB?

Well, assuming you have a 64-bit processor. :)

> does it support PAE? How can i check/enable?

$ fgrep pae /proc/cpuinfo

> performance issues in using PAE?

PAE can't be as efficient as 64-bit addressing, but it's unlikely to be
your primary bottleneck on a desktop machine. Now, if you were running
something off a 32GiB ramdisk, that might be a different issue. :)

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