On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, [email protected] wrote: > During a recent discussion on i386 V AMD64 linux a number of people said > stay away from Physical Address Extension PAE kernels, althougth no > reasons/evidence was given to back up the warning, What is the problem with > PAE. A search on the net showed no major problems ascociated with this > extension apart from the obvious limited amount of memory avaible for a > single process. > As stated I have run PAE kernels now for some time with no problems what so > ever.
The limit on per-process address space (which isn't just a limit on memory use) is the main thing. Also there are performance issues with PAE. > On Debian AMD64 I have managed to get wine running but as yet I cannot > compile wine itself, the build complaining of no 32 bit compiler (which is > correct). Sadly Debian sid will not let me install one without removing > alot of packages including xorg, this certainly not what I want. Have you enabled multi-arch? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
