On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:59 +0000, ne... wrote: > On 12/11/2007, Alexander Volovics <awol@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > When installing F8.i386 on a machine with 4GB RAM which > > kernel should(can) be used (to see and use all RAM). > > > > Reading the info on the fedora wiki I get the impression that > > kernel-PAE is necessary for > 4GB RAM. > > > > But how about <= 4GB. > > Will the standard kernel also support 4GB RAM? > Do not quote me on this but I think I have read somewhere that the > standard kernel may not use or see all the RAM. Therefore I think you > should use the PAE kernel for >3GB and the normal kernel for > everything else. You're correct - and you *can* quote me on this one as someone using a system with 4GB RAM. The standard kernel does NOT see all of the RAM - instead it will recognize about 3.2GB. In order to see all of the RAM on the machine, you must either use the PAE kernel or run 64-bit. If using the PAE kernel, don't forget to install both kernel-PAE and kernel-PAE-devel. BTW - once you do a few things (see the release notes about 32-bit plugins for Firefox, for example), 64-bit F8 in 4GB RAM seems to run quite nicely... Cheers, Chris -- ==================================================== In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. --Yogi Berra
