[Novalug] laptop ram

[David A. Cafaro]

Hi Roger,

A 32bit Linux can address more than 4GB of ram if you are running a PAE
(Physical Address Extension???) kernel.  A PAE kernel plays some tricks
with address space assignments to allow you to use larger amounts of RAM.

It works, but is not as efficient or secure as using a native 64bit OS
which doesn't have to use any tricks to address greater than 4GB.  Still
it's not a bad solution if you can't go native 64bit.

Cheers,
David

On 09/28/2011 02:40 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> Are you going 64 bit? I understand that 32 bit systems can not address
> more than 4 GB of ram.