On Sunday 02 August 2009 12:29:22 you wrote: > Hi, > > The Fedora 11 default installation installs the kernel with PAE > installation *regardless* of how much RAM I have. > > I was wondering: are there any performance "penalties" when using PAE > enabled kernel instead of the i686 version? I was wondering the same once, and wrote this little post: http://www.held.org.il/blog/?p=79
Note the references which I based this on. In short: it's not easy to measure, but the penalty seems to be quite insignificant. Still, using a 64 bit kernel (even on 32 bit os!) removes the need for PAE. - Oren _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
