PAE kernel on 1GB system?

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Oct 5 14:36:27 UTC 2009


Honza 'thingwath' Bartoš wrote:
> 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).
> 
And that's a good reason to stay with PAE, assuming the CPU supports NX.

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