Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: PAE/NX without performance drain? | | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:37:57 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:39 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Apparently (as I've been told today) using a hardware NX bit in a 32-bit > x86 kernel requires PAE mode. PAE mode is enabled with HIGHMEM64, which > is (apparently) extremely slow.
it's not extremely slow.
there is a minor performance delta, sure, but to be honest that's a benchmark thing more than a real life thing.
What did your measurements show that the slowdown was? And how did you measure this?
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