PAE kernel on 1GB system?

[Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am setting up a fanless 1GB VIA C7 system to run Asterisk.  (It also
> has a 32GB SSD -- no moving parts at all!)  By default anaconda uses the
> i686 PAE kernel for this system, presumably because the C7 instruction
> set qualifies it as an i686.
>
> I can't think of any reason to use a PAE kernel on this system, so I'm
> thinking of switching to the i586 kernel.  Can anyone see any
> disadvantage to making the switch?
>

PAE kernel is required for NX bit support (but I'm not sure if your
CPU supports it anyway).

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