Ok, I did a little google search about installing 8 gb of ram in openSUSE 11.1 32 bit, this because when I clic the Mycomputer icon it says that the kernel has PAE support, my motherboard is an Asrock Alive-NF6GVSTA with the latest BIOS update and an AMD Athlon X2 4400+ processor, for now I have only 3 gb of ram but I plan to install 8 gb, my question is, this PAE thing really works? will the 32 bit operating system use the 8 gb of ram at least in my system? does it worth the expense?, what are your experiences?
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:56 +0000, Easgs wrote:
> Ok, I did a little google search about installing 8 gb of ram in
> openSUSE 11.1 32 bit, this because when I clic the Mycomputer icon it
> says that the kernel has PAE support, my motherboard is an Asrock
> Alive-NF6GVSTA with the latest BIOS update and an AMD Athlon X2 4400+
> processor, for now I have only 3 gb of ram but I plan to install 8 gb,
> my question is, this PAE thing really works? will the 32 bit operating
> system use the 8 gb of ram at least in my system? does it worth the
> expense?, what are your experiences?
Performance impact on memory access is marginal… at most probably 2%.
If you run a lot of apps that don’t need access to more than 2G of
memory, then it may well be worth it.
Personally, I’d ditch the Windows dual boot config, and go all
Linux… and go 64bit.
Hi
If your dual booting into XP (See the specs for your motherboard and
the entry about ram), then it won’t recognize the extra ram anyway. Like
cjcox says go 64bit and then run windows in a Virtual Machine.
I don`t have a dual boot with Windows, this pc only has openSUSE 11.1 32 bit and two virtual machines one With Windows XP and the other for testing purposes.
the aplication for the 8 gb of ram will be for example:
-2 virtual machines with 2 gb of ram each.
-A program to listen music, like VLC.
-Internet browsing
-openoffice writer
-openoffice calc
-this machine has a shared folder with videos, so other computers in the house will be playing movies stored in this pc and accesing documents.
all running at the same time, the problem is that I need to keep the 32 bit operating system, the speed of the pc is fine, but I would like support for more applications running at the same time.
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 17:46 +0000, Easgs wrote:
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> all running at the same time, the problem is that I need to keep the 32
> bit operating system, the speed of the pc is fine, but I would like
> support for more applications running at the same time.
>
> will this work?
It should work. You can even configure your VM’s with more than
2G.
Ideally, 64bit is better, you don’t have to tell us why 32bit is
required for you.
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 16:16 +0000, Easgs wrote:
> I don`t know, I am not ready for 64 bit computing, may be for the
> applications, I prefer to wait more until I change to a 64 bit operating
> system.
Good enough… when you DO decide to go 64bit, remember that Linux
has been doing 64bit for a pretty long time (relatively speaking).
So moving to 64bit Linux is a LOT safer than moving to 64bit Windows.