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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:37:26 +1300
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: i686 SMP systems with more then 12 GB ram with 2.4.x kernel ?
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 04:16:07PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

    You don't neccessarily need PSE. Migrating to an option to support
    > 4K _virtual_ page size is more flexible for x86, although it
    would need glibc getpagesize() fixing I think, and might mean a
    few apps wouldnt run in that configuration.

If someone has a minute or so, can someone briefly explain the
difference(s) between PSE and PAE?



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