Which Fedora 16 for Levono 120e?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Dec 7 11:49:09 UTC 2011


On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:32:35 -0800
Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 12/06/2011 05:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Except that your 4GB of memory will work more efficiently. 32-bit
> > versions can't address all of the 4GB without fiddling with page tables,
> > as has been discussed many times on this list.
> 
> I have just 4GB on this laptop and a PAE kernel, which is supposed to 
> help with that.  Don't know how good it is, but I thought it worth 
> mentioning.

Not very.. PAE means it can access all 4GB, but in 32bit mode it's still
unable to do so efficiently. The efficient limit for 32bit is about 1GB.


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