On 04/06/07 11:05 +0100, G T Smith wrote: > Frank Fiene wrote: > > On Montag, 4. Juni 2007, Jonathan Ervine wrote: > > Also 32bit Linux kernel should be fine with PAE, not? > > > > I'll have a look at the BIOS. > > I have been trying to track the article down, but I came across > something recently that suggested that because some video cards mapped > memory somewhere in the 3Gb region, the effective memory became about > 3Gb on these systems. This is apparently a problem both for linux and > windows OS machines. > > The thrust of the article was that there was not a lot of point buying > more than 2Gb on a desktop/laptop PC. (Which may have something to do > with why I cannot find it any more...)
This article in the Guardian from last week suggests that anything over 3GB on a 32 bit machine is a waste of time: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2091227,00.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
