Questions tagged [pae]
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Why does the "free" command and "dmidecode" show different values for RAM?
I've got a CentOS 5.10 (32-bit) server running on VMWare. It's allocated 4 GB of RAM.
If I run dmidecode -t 17 | grep Size | grep MB I see:
Size: 4096 MB
Yet when I run free, I see:
total used free shared buffers…
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How do I find out if PAE is enabled?
What's the command to find out if PAE is enabled ?
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What processors do/do not support PAE?
I'm doing some research, and trying to find out if any processors do not support PAE that are currently being used. Wikipedia has a short list (Pentium M, Celeron M, Pentium PRO... I found this list under Executable Space Protection ).
Are the…
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Can 32-bit Linux use all 4 GB of RAM without a PAE kernel?
Will I benefit from the 32-bit PAE-enabled Linux kernel over the 32-bit non-PAE kernel in a server that has exactly 4GB of ram (and 'pae' in the cpuid flags)? Will the system be able to use all 4GB of ram without a PAE kernel, or will some of the…
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How much memory can SQL Server 2005 x86 use when installed on Windows Server 2008 x64?
If I install SQL Server 2005 x86 on Windows Server 2008 x64 how much memory will SQL be able to use be default? How much after setting SQL server's AWE switch?
This post talks about using /3gb, /PAE, and AWE to utilize SQL Server 2008 x86 memory…
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More than 4Gb memory on MS SQL
We have a Database running on MS SQL 2005. We have a bit of a memory problem on that server.
We want to up the memory to 8GB but it is running on a Server 2003 R2 standard edition OS.
Will it be possible to use PAE and still get the benefit of the…
user26462
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Is using the /3GB statup switch in Windows 2008 x86 only running Sql Server 2008 x86, a good thing?
I previously asked this same question a while back but that was for the x64 bit versions of the OS and Sql Server.
Now, I'm asking the same thing for the x86 (32 bit) versions of the OS and Sql Server.
So, is this a good thing to do? I'm assuming I…
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/3GB switch on win2k3 server with 6gb RAM and PAE
We are currently evaluating adding the /3gb switch to some of our servers to increase the available memeory for one of the running processes (that is compiled with the IMAGEFILELARGEADDRESSAWARE flag set) that is bumping off the 2gb limit.
However,…
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Why doesn't my server doesn't recognise more than 4GB RAM even with Physical Address Extensions?
Why doesn't my server doesn't recognise more than 4GB RAM even with Physical Address Extensions under Windows Server 2003 SP2? I thought PAE should enable the server to use more RAM than 4GB but having upgraded the machine so it has 7GB RAM,…
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Will windows server 2008 show PAE memory in task manager
First off I am a programmer I am just investigating this and making sure I have my facts straight.
We are getting some memory issues on a terminal server when a few people load a program that uses quite a lot of memory (but not out of the ordinary).…
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Severe mysqldump performance degradation using Centos Linux, 8GB PAE and MySQL 5.0.77
We use MySQL 5.0.77 on CentOS 5.5 on VMWare:
Linux dev.ic.soschildrensvillages.org.uk 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Sep 21 05:48:23 EDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
We have recently upgraded from 4GB RAM to 8GB. When we did this the time of…
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VMware Server 2 under 32 bit OS and more than 4G RAM crashes
We have VMware Server 2 running under a 32 bit OS (Ubuntu Hardy) installed by our provider. PAE is enabled, so we could exceed the 32 bit 4G limit.
However, when we let install 4G more RAM to a total of 8G, the system crashes very soon (about 30…
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Running out of LowMem with Ubuntu PAE Kernel and 32GB of RAM
I'm running a Java data import process on a 32-bit Ubuntu 10 PAE kernel machine. After running the process for a while, the oom-killer zaps my Java process. After some Googling and digging through docs, it looks like the system is running out of…
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How to tell if PAE is hurting me?
We have a couple of servers with 20-30 GB RAM that are running (a variant of) RHEL4. They are currently running the SMP i386 kernel, not x64, not even the hugemem kernel. This means LowMem is confined to < 1G, and thus dentry_cache and…
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Is is possible to move to a CentOS PAE kernel after installing more RAM
I'm creating new virtual Linux servers on ESXi hosts. The existing systems are 32-bit RHEL with 4GB RAM. I am planning to create the new servers with 4GB RAM and run 32-bit CentOS 5.
If I want to add more RAM later I'd need to move to a PAE kernel.…
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