PAE kernel default with 1.5gb of ram?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Dec 25 03:46:54 UTC 2006
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:59:03AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I just updated a machine with FC4 to use FC6 and it now defaults to this kernel:
>
> 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6PAE #1 SMP
>
> The computer has only 1.5gb of ram in it; why would it want to use a PAE
> kernel? The "regular" kernel is also installed and I tried both, and didn't
> see any difference in performance during the minute or two that I played with
> it.
>
> I could easily change the default to the regular kernel, but I want to know why
> the machine figures it should be using a PAE kernel.
Does your CPU have NX ?
Dave
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