On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 15:22 +1000, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > "PAE is required for NX support, and furthermore enables larger > swapspace support for non-overcommit purposes. It has the cost of more > pagetable lookup overhead, and also consumes more pagetable space per > process." > > That suggests to me a similar situation to a win modem or auto > resampling. >
Why? The sentences above do not specify what is compared and only handwavingly suggests a cost of "more" ... Mind you, 64bit pointers crawling all over the place ain't free either. > - Should this be a recommended method coming from LAD? > Rather than suggesting something that is defunkt by default, yes. > > BTW, it would be interesting to get some real world feedback from > anyone who has this enabled already on a 32 bit platform. > This would most likely be enabled by default for anybody who has installed a 32bit distro on a machine with 8GB memory. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
