Re: 4GB memory and Intel Dual-Core system

From: Lennart Sorensen
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 11:21:32 EST


On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:09:25AM +0200, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
> I have Tyan k8e which supports memory remapping. Question, however, will
> that work with i686-based kernel? Or do we have to switch to x86_64?

I suspect with PAE it will still work yes. I haven't tried it of course
(I don't have that much ram). It will still have the PAE performance
hit on memory access to memory past 4GB just because that's what PAE
does.

Len Sorensen
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