Thanks, Jim. Hmm, sounds like it is made for Linux only. But let me research 
a while on Wikipedia and so on...

Sven



"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:57:27 -0500, Sven Littkowski wrote:
>
>> Please more information on PAE. I would be very interested to hear your
>> experiences with it. And a link (but i am gonna search for it now, too).
>
> Physical (or Paged) Address Extensions.  Wikipedia has an article on it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
>
> Basically, it's very similar to the changes that led to 32-bit protected
> mode.  If you've programmed in x86 assembly, you know about
> segment:offset addressing.  PAE is a similar concept, but instead of
> using 16-bit registers, it uses 32-bit registers.  The upshot is that you
> can use it to address memory > 4 GB.
>
> I've used it on Linux boxen that have 4 GB of memory or more (though at
> least with SUSE Linux, the PAE-enabled kernels are installed if you have
>> 2 GB of memory, and using it with less doesn't hurt anything.  I
> believe in OpenSUSE/SLE11, they're going to just use PAE kernels
> consistently as if you start with a machine with < 2 GB and then upgrade
> to > 4 GB, you need to switch out the kernel currently).
>
> Jim
> -- 
> Jim Henderson, CNA6, CDE, CNI, LPIC-1
> Novell Training Services
>
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