On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Craig Millar wrote:
> On 04/06/07 11:05 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
> > Frank Fiene wrote:
> > > On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote:
> > > Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not?
> > >
> > > I'll have a look at the BIOS.
> >
> > I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across
> > something recently that suggested that because some video cards
> > mapped memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory
> > became about 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem
> > both for linux and windows OS machines.
> >
> > The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point
> > buying more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have
> > something to do with why I cannot find it any more...)
>
> This article in the Guardian from last week suggests that anything
> over 3GB on a 32 bit machine is a waste of time:
>
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091227,00.html
Yes, it is a problem with context switching and PAE i think.
But this is the reason why i have a 64bit machine and a corresponding
kernel! ;-)
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