On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:32:27PM +0000, Mike Pumford wrote: > > > On 20/01/2017 18:18, John D. Baker wrote: > > > The intent of booting i386 release on this amd64 machine is to build > > packages for i386 faster than even my fastest real i386 can. It's faster, > > has more CPUs and with the extra RAM and PAE, I can put WRKOBJDIR in > > /tmp on tmpfs for everything except "misc/libreoffice". > > > If that's your primary goal have you considered using pkg_comp. That builds > packages in chroot environments and on amd64 can build packages for i386. > From one 7.0 amd64 machine I build packages for 6.x/i386, and 7.0/amd64. I > did also do 7.0/i386 as well until I switched that machine to 64bit. That > might be a better alternative that trying to bludgeon a PAE kernel into > life.
The other option is Xen. I generally would avoid the PAE kernel. Both cases have a few issues with Emacs, but that's the only problem I am aware of. Joerg
