Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

Thanks everyone who replied,

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:26:08 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

>> I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as
>> well?
> 
> No, 32 bits architecture can make use of PAE and add/use/address as much
> as 64 GiB of RAM.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

in which it says:

,-----
| The Linux kernel supports PAE  as a build option and most major
| distributions provide a PAE kernel either as the default or as an
| option.
`-----

How can I know if the PAE support is built in my kernel?

$ grep -i pae /boot/config* || echo no found 
no found

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