[nylug-talk] x86-64 for 1GiB+ programs (especially in VMs) -- WAS: LOWMEM vs. HIGHMEM performance advantage?

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:53:06PM -0400, jh wrote:
> So - I'm just testing with PAE off, and hoping to see an improvement. If 
>   not, it goes back to the app developers. Thanks for everyone's help.

There are indications that PAE and some ia32 BIOS's (desktop bios's)
can play badly together:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45958

-Peter

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