On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote:
> Strange, I'm running Lucid 32-Bit on my machine (with 4GB Ram) and it > sees the full 4GB fine. I gather the kernel has got PAE extensions or > whatever it is to support over 3.25GB (although I gather the memory > limit per process is 4GB, not a problem for me though since I only have > 4GB Ram anyway). No, PAE is a paging mechanism for a *32-bit* kernel to swap in extra RAM on a machine with >4GB. It has nothing to do with a 64-bit desktop OS accessing more memory. PAE was rarely used and only really on server machines years ago. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
