I agree > ...Except that HIGHMEM64 kernel also fails to boot on everything that > does not support PAE perfectly or has a slightest bug in the support. > Keep in mind the present hardware requirements of Ubuntu (works even for > old computers), and the fact that LTSes must be around for several > years. PAE would cause problems with surprisingly many computers, > including potentially new clone chips such as VIA's creations... The > amount of uncontent from that move would me major. > > Furthermore there is 3-6% performance impact on everything memory > related, and a single process still has 3G limitation in their > addressing. This means that even computers with less than that 3G memory > would get the performance hit. As much as I would want this to happen it > is not feasible nor likely will be feasible to have such kernel as > default. Just move into 64-bit Linux, it does run also every 32-bit > application just fine. The time of running 32-bit distributions has been > over for couple years already to be honest. > > > ** Changed in: ubuntu > Status: New => Invalid > > -- > HIGHMEM64G is not enabled in Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179025 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. >
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