Rawhide: kernel & Yumex

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Feb 16 19:08:38 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 11:53 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> > 
> > However, mine has less than 4GB ram, so even is yum is making this
> > decision, mine would not be a good candidate anyway...
> 
> Apart of "Physical Address Extension" PAE kernels have supposedly a
> better mechanism for handling page tables.  I really cannot tell if
> these differences are measurable but recently on lkml somebody
> suggested that if your processer is PAE capable then you should be
> running PAE kernel regardless of how much of memory you have on
> board; especially if you do not have an overhead from "above 4Gig".
> Add to that possible gains from i686 over i586.
> 
> All of the above for me is "anecdotal".
> 
>    Michal


PAE kernels also give you real NX (no execute) in all of its various
names, instead of the emulated one in the non-pae kernel.

Also, the PAE kernel is suitable to be ran as a Xen paravirt guest,
whereas the other kernels are not.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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