Re: PAE causing failure to run various executables.

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Oct 06 2005 - 09:29:53 EST


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:26 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> >>Another possible reason can be NX(Execute Disable) support, which is
> >>active only on a PAE kernel. Trying "noexec=off" on a PAE kernel can be
> >>tried here.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >if that were the case them mem=4096M wouldn't solve the hangs..
> >
> >
> >
> then bad memory is more likely. does mem= limit memory size to 4096MB,
> or does it limit the maximum physical address?

highest phys address



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