[ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:

> Strange, I'm running Lucid 32-Bit on my machine (with 4GB Ram) and it
> sees the full 4GB fine.  I gather the kernel has got PAE extensions or
> whatever it is to support over 3.25GB (although I gather the memory
> limit per process is 4GB, not a problem for me though since I only have
> 4GB Ram anyway).

No, PAE is a paging mechanism for a *32-bit* kernel to swap in extra
RAM on a machine with >4GB. It has nothing to do with a 64-bit desktop
OS accessing more memory.

PAE was rarely used and only really on server machines years ago.

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