On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:59:03AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > I just updated a machine with FC4 to use FC6 and it now defaults to this kernel: > > 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6PAE #1 SMP > > The computer has only 1.5gb of ram in it; why would it want to use a PAE > kernel? The "regular" kernel is also installed and I tried both, and didn't > see any difference in performance during the minute or two that I played with > it. > > I could easily change the default to the regular kernel, but I want to know why > the machine figures it should be using a PAE kernel. Does your CPU have NX ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk