Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

On 7/22/2010 1:50 PM, Markus Falb wrote:

On 22/07/2010 19:58, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

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What is a program supposed to do to get at "that extra RAM" then ? Just curious ;-)

AFAIK, it must be specifically compiled for it...

I always thought PAE is quite transparent thing for user programs. PAE is a hardware feature and hardware management is a kernel task after all, isnt it ? The kernel has to be compiled for PAE, of course.

What I want to say: I do not know about "programming techniqes to exploit PAE".

Make the decision a lot easier: add another 4 gig of RAM to the box and install the PAE kernel. win/win. For just 4 gigs it's probably a wash anyway.