PAE kernel on 1GB system?
Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš
thingwath at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 23:01:39 UTC 2009
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am setting up a fanless 1GB VIA C7 system to run Asterisk. (It also
> has a 32GB SSD -- no moving parts at all!) By default anaconda uses the
> i686 PAE kernel for this system, presumably because the C7 instruction
> set qualifies it as an i686.
>
> I can't think of any reason to use a PAE kernel on this system, so I'm
> thinking of switching to the i586 kernel. Can anyone see any
> disadvantage to making the switch?
>
PAE kernel is required for NX bit support (but I'm not sure if your
CPU supports it anyway).
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