On 7/28/07, Tim Allingham <deserted@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 09:39 +1000, Tim Allingham wrote:
> > I don't actually run 4GB of RAM in any of my intel systems, so I can't
> > comment from experience, however my suspicion would be the overhead
> > introduced from PAE, which (at least on older kernels) requires some
> > processing overhead to utilise.  Are you able to try a 64-bit install to
> > determine if this is the case?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim Allingham
> > Email:Tim@DataFirst-IT.com.au
>
> just to add, this page gives a reasonable explanation of the problems
> with 32-bit OS's trying to address large RAM volumes
>
> http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm
>
>
That is very very very sad...
The fact is I can't use 64bits for now... So let's take one gig out!
Thanks for your help!!!!

Daniel