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