Re: Install i386 or amd64?

[jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost]

> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:26:13AM -0500, Jason Mitchell wrote:
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>> Not to advocate i386 over amd64, but doesn't NetBSD/i386 support PAE and
>> thus can access >2GB of RAM?
>>
>
> You are still limited to a 32bit address space in the process so you
> still can't go over the 4Gb memory limit and that is divided between
> kernel and user space hence why a process gets 2(ish)Gb.  These
> limitations don't apply to a true 64bit system.
>
> --
> Brett Lymn
> Staple Guns: because duct tape doesn't make that KerCHUNK sound - xkcd.com
>
Please don't post about things that you don't understand. Here's the
information from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

And here's the first four lines:

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Physical Address Extension
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE) is a feature to allow
32-bit IA-32 central processing units (CPUs) to access a physical address
space (including random access memory and memory mapped devices) larger
than 4 gigabytes.

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I've copied port-i386 on this in case more questions come up.

Jason M.