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

Hakan Koseoglu hakan at koseoglu.org
Thu Jul 22 18:43:14 UTC 2010


On 22/07/10 18:07, Warren Young wrote:
> Very few programs can use PAE to get at that extra RAM.  Can the
> programs you run do this?
With PAE you can utilize all of the extra RAM but each individual 
program will be limited to 3GB user space, you can fit a more of them 
into 16GB, still using 32 bit. You won't need additional coding to do 
that. Using more than 3-4GB per process will require such fiddlings.



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