On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
During a recent discussion on i386 V AMD64 linux a number of people said stay away from Physical Address Extension PAE kernels, althougth no reasons/evidence was given to back up the warning, What is the problem with PAE. A search on the net showed no major problems ascociated with this extension apart from the obvious limited amount of memory avaible for a single process. As stated I have run PAE kernels now for some time with no problems what so ever.
The limit on per-process address space (which isn't just a limit on memory use) is the main thing. Also there are performance issues with PAE.
On Debian AMD64 I have managed to get wine running but as yet I cannot compile wine itself, the build complaining of no 32 bit compiler (which is correct). Sadly Debian sid will not let me install one without removing alot of packages including xorg, this certainly not what I want.
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