2008/12/6 Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>: > > Am 06.12.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: >> PAE, not SMP. Gah, my mistake, sorry. > He should be able to replace the kernel via rpm -e and rpm -i > That said, I doubt he'll actually see a benefit. > PAE is slow. > If you want to see a real performance-gain, install 5.2 x86-64. If this server is not mission-critical and therefore you wouldn't mind the downtime I'd recommend this too. Of course it could be harder if the server is Colo'd but for >4GB RAM x86-64 is the best way to go. HTH, Mike