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Art Alexion wrote: > On Friday 18 December 2009 21:20:04 Lee Marzke wrote: > >> As of Karmic, there is now a pae enabled desktop kernel. >> >> If your not running any 64 bit apps, >> you could just install the linux-2.6.31-17-generic-pae and >> then access all 4G of RAM without reinstalling. >> >> > > Are these criticisms still applicable to PAE? > > http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2008-12/msg00228.html > > As I read them, it seems that losing 128 MB to access 800 MB is still a 672 MB > gain. > > I do not need to run any 64 bit apps, unless running a 64 bit OS in a VM is > considered a 64 bit "app". > > If PAE is good in the balance, it seems a much simpler approach to my problem. > > > PAE allows access to most of the 4G but doesn't help with running a 64 bit OS. Can you re-install Win7 in 32 bit mode, that might be easier than reinstalling your configured Ubuntu. The PAE kernel was a seamless change for me, and the memory just appeared. lmarzke@raven:~$ uname -a Linux raven 2.6.31-17-generic-pae #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:23:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux lmarzke@raven:~$ more /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4044740 kB MemFree: 314668 kB Buffers: 79492 kB Lee ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug