[CentOS] PAE Kernel

Fri Aug 27 15:35:35 UTC 2010
Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org>

Matt,

On 27 August 2010 16:26, Matt <lm7812 at gmail.com> 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
These are stock kernel.

If you had these, you'd have PAE kernels:
kernel-PAE.i686 : The Linux kernel compiled for PAE capable machines.
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 : Development package for building kernel
modules to match the PAE kernel.

> 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
These are just headers and shouldn't do any harm.
Name       : kernel-PAE-devel
Arch       : i686
Version    : 2.6.18
Release    : 194.11.1.el5
Size       : 5.4 M
Repo       : updates
Summary    : Development package for building kernel modules to match
the PAE kernel.
URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
License    : GPLv2
Description: This package provides kernel headers and makefiles
sufficient to build modules
           : against the PAE kernel package.


And this is the PAE kernel info (all from yum info)

Name       : kernel-PAE
Arch       : i686
Version    : 2.6.18
Release    : 194.11.1.el5
Size       : 17 M
Repo       : updates
Summary    : The Linux kernel compiled for PAE capable machines.
URL        : http://www.kernel.org/
License    : GPLv2
Description: This package includes a version of the Linux kernel with
support for up to
           : 16GB of high memory. It requires a CPU with Physical
Address Extensions (PAE).
           : The non-PAE kernel can only address up to 4GB of memory.
           : Install the kernel-PAE package if your machine has more
than 4GB of memory.

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