On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I > > want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM. > > > > I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using > > a PAE kernel ? > > yum install kernel-PAE > > Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed, > e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc. > > I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an > i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel. > > What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ? Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am running out of memory or anything. I generally have ~1600 MB free now. I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free. Now I should increase the size of my swap file partition from 2GB to 4GB... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
