Re: PAE + i7 + 24G RAM + i386 kernel = panic

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

> I just took the GENERIC kernel, modified one line to enable PAE and then rebooted my i7 with 24G of RAM. I'm using NetBSD 7.0 i386. 

This may not be the point, but: If you have that much RAM, why do you use a 32-bit kernel in the first place? In benchmarks for Go, the devs found that 64-bit code gives a 10-15% speedup across the board. This is because there are more processor registers in 64-bit mode, so more variables can be kept in registers.

—Benny.