Re: PAE or not PAE?

[Neo <neo@spacerat.ch>]

Am 12.03.2018 um 20:04 schrieb Pascal Hambourg:
> No, you also need it on machines with 4 GiB of RAM and remapping 
> capability, in order to use the part of the RAM which is remapped 
> beyond the 4-GiB boundary due to the "PCI hole". Usually the remapped 
> memory amount is about 500 MB, but I have seen machines remapping 1 
> GiB or even 2 GiB, leaving only 2 or 3 GiB of usable RAM with a non 
> PAE kernel.
>
> Note that the non PAE kernel in older Debian versions up to Jessie 
> lacked multi-processor (including multi-core and hyper-threading) 
> support.

Thx for the clarification.