> I just took the GENERIC kernel, modified one line to enable PAE and then > rebooted my i7 with 24G of RAM. I'm using NetBSD 7.0 i386.
This may not be the point, but: If you have that much RAM, why do you use a 32-bit kernel in the first place? In benchmarks for Go, the devs found that 64-bit code gives a 10-15% speedup across the board. This is because there are more processor registers in 64-bit mode, so more variables can be kept in registers. —Benny.
