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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >