Re: [CentOS] died again

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com wrote:

On 12/13/2013 16:35, Michael Hennebry wrote:

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I note the absence of PAE for CentOS. I've read that PAE can be important.

Only if you're trying to address more than 4 GB of RAM on a 32-bit system. Even then, most software doesn't take advantage of it.

PAE is an old hack Intel invented in the mid 90's to ease the transition to 64-bit computing. Now that 64-bit is really, finally here, it's time to start forgetting that PAE ever existed.

I think PAE is a required default in CentOS6 instead of an option. CentOS5 had separate kernel versions.