On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:23 -0700, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Linuxguy123
<linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My laptop has 4GB of RAM. It is currently using only 3 GB of RAM. I
> want to upgrade to 8 GB of RAM.
>
> I am currently using a 32 bit non PAE kernel. How do I change to using
> a PAE kernel ?
yum install kernel-PAE
Note: There may be additional packages which need to be installed,
e.g. kernel-PAE-devel, kmod-nvidia-PAE, etc.
I'm surprised that Anaconda did not detect that your processor was an
i686 and automatically install the PAE kernel.
> What difference in speed will I notice in doing this ?
Evolution seems to be faster, but 'free -m' isn't showing that I am
running out of memory or anything. I generally have ~1600 MB free now.
I gained 1 GB, so before it would have been ~400 MB free.
Now I should increase the size of my swap file partition from 2GB to
4GB...