physical RAM restriction in Fedora 12 (32 bit and 64 bit)

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Dec 17 21:53:24 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> said:
> And the PAE kernel will be installed by default.
> So the 32 bit Fedora could be considered without limit too.

IIRC, the practical limit with PAE is something like 8G or 16G RAM.
With more, you end up using all the low RAM for page tables and can't
get any actual work done.
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