linux-kernel - Re: PAE/NX without performance drain?

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Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:03:35 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PAE/NX without performance drain?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:56:26PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:

 > > other distros ship a PAE enabled kernel, and use that for NX enabled
 > > machines (all NX capable machines support PAE obviously). I'm surprised
 > > Ubuntu doesn't, maybe ask them? (Or use a distro that does have this)
 > > 
 > 
 > OpenSuSE and Fedora Core 6 both fail this; I checked the .config for the
 > default kernels (by proxy on OpenSuSE 10.2; I asked someone) and ran my
 > test case on FC6 (LiveCD from
 > http://www.fedoraunity.org/news-archives/fedora-core-6-zod-live-spins-released).

The livecd has a single kernel I believe.  The 'real' FC6 release
has both a PAE and non-PAE kernel as Arjan described.

		Dave

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