Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports >4GB with the PAE
kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64
because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work
properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine as a GUI desktop
*AND* you have a nvidia video card you get almost 10 times better
performence with i386 because amd64 has a hard time reconizing PCI cards
installed "above" the 4gb limit (the phsycial addr is above RAM)
I could be wrong, but I thought that the nvidia binary driver did not
work on a i386 PAE kernel.
Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks
If I implied it I did not mean it I am sorry... (bad example) there are
other ports that do work with PAE and not with AMD64 (forget what they
are right now since I switched from amd64 to i386 almost 6 months
ago)... also I do not know of any ports that do work with amd64 that do
not work with PAE... I have not checked this but I think the primary
difference is how large gcc reports void * (and other ptr's) to be as
well the size of int's
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