Quoting Muli Ben-Yehuda, from the post of Thu, 09 Aug: > > Because some PCI devices cannot deal with addresses over 4G. To be > able to map the RAM that has physical address over 4G in the CPU's > page tables, you need a PAE kernel. As for the penalty on speed, I > doubt you'll be able to measure it, and it will be offset by the extra > RAM.
According to Marc (who is a man I don't like to disagree with) it's a hit of 3-5% on average on grid machines if I recall. welp... we'll wait for the need for that extra 1/2 a gig to arrive and then reconsider using it. for now it's doing OK :) -- Late bloomer Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
