Dear Pavel and Dave, > The assertion was that 4GB with no PAE passed a forkbomb test (ooming) > while 4GB of RAM with PAE hung, thus _PAE_ is broken.
Yes, PAE is broken. Still, maybe the above needs slight correction: non-PAE HIGHMEM4G passed the "sleep test": no OOM, nothing unexpected; whereas PAE OOMed then hung (tested with various RAM from 3GB to 64GB). The feeling I get is that amd64 is proposed as a drop-in replacement for PAE, that support and development of PAE is gone, that PAE is dead. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301301940.r0ujeeka016...@como.maths.usyd.edu.au