6.1 with PAE on a recent server (HP DL380 G5 or Dell PE 1950) ?

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Tue Nov 14 01:30:23 PST 2006


Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote:

>> Will the systems be quicker this way, or will it "just" help
>> with this 4GB memory limit?
>>
> Quicker - probably not.  Will certainly help with the 4G limit.

On a low level sort of way amd64 actually might be quicker than PAE 
since AFAIK PAE introduces nontrivial kernel overhead to get to the 
"extra" memory.



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