PAE kernel default with 1.5gb of ram?

[Dave Jones]

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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