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

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Markus Falb wrote:

> To: centos at centos.org
> From: Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...
> 
> On 22/07/2010 19:07, Warren Young wrote:
>> On 7/22/2010 3:25 AM, John Doe wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain
>>> those exta 700MB...
>>
>> Very few programs can use PAE to get at that extra RAM.  Can the
>> programs you run do this?
>
> What is a program supposed to do to get at "that extra RAM" then ?
> Just curious ;-)
>
> -- 
> Regards, Markus

Here's an explanation on what PAE is and how it works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Kind Regards,

Keith