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

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Markus Falb wrote:

To: centos@centos.org From: Markus Falb markus.falb@fasel.at Subject: Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

On 22/07/2010 19:07, Warren Young wrote:

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On 7/22/2010 3:25 AM, John Doe wrote:

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I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain those exta 700MB...

Very few programs can use PAE to get at that extra RAM. Can the programs you run do this?

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

-- Regards, Markus

Here's an explanation on what PAE is and how it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Kind Regards,

Keith