On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 04:49:09PM -0000, Kees Cook wrote: > (As a tangent, it might be easier to just install the PAE kernels if the > "pae" flag exists in /proc/cpuinfo. Without that flag, the amount of > memory isn't interesting. With that flag, they should get a kernel that > supports future memory upgrades.)
I've stated my position on this before in an e-mail thread, although it doesn't look as though it made it into this bug. PAE is slow. I realise that it has some security benefits, but it is SLOW. Linus has some fairly excoriating comments on it here (HIGHMEM64G == PAE) - I don't fancy the idea of making forks significantly more expensive, especially considering the focus on boot speed: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/845637 As such, I strongly feel that we have to make its use conditional on having enough memory to require it. The memory upgrade issue is unfortunate, but with creativity we could address it in other ways. -- Installer needs way to install PAE kernel on i386 9.10 DVD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
