[CentOS] PAE Kernel

[Juergen Gotteswinter]

short answer... you dont really need it in this case. only if you want 
to use more then 3gb ram in a 32bit environment

On 08/27/2010 05:26 PM, Matt wrote:
> I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit.  I noticed these kernels are installed.
>
> [root at ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort
> kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
> kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
> kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
> kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
>
> [root at ns1 log]# uname -a
> Linux ns1.xx.net 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:09:06 EDT
> 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> [root at ns1 log]# free
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1025500     687176     338324          0      87824     535628
> -/+ buffers/cache:      63724     961776
> Swap:      2031608          0    2031608
>
> This machine only has 1G of RAM.  Should I just remove the PAE kernels?
>
> Matt
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