Is 586 or PAE recommended with 2GB of memory?

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 8 15:01:50 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> I upgraded to yesterdays rawhide and was given the 586 kernel by default.
> The CPUs are PAE compatible so I could use the PAE kernel instead.
> My question is, with just 2 GB of memory which is likely to run faster?
> And is getting NX a benefit worth having in Fedora?

If your cpu supports PAE you should be running PAE.
Its not just for "> 4GB memory".




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