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(Tiny)Core x86 : is there a reason not to enable PAE ?

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SeventhSin:
Hello,

TinyCore-10.1.iso
Boot Core (command line only) + nozswap option

OK: VM with 1024 MB RAM => tce-load -wil htop => MEM = 36.1/1006M
OK: VM with 2048 MB RAM => tce-load -wil htop => MEM = 41.3/1.97G

NOT OK: VM with 3072 MB RAM => tce-load -wil htop => MEM = 40.8/2.97G
NOT OK: VM with 4096 MB RAM => tce-load -wil htop => MEM = 41.6/2.97G

So we're capped a 2.97G, hmm... A little bit of research shows PAE is missing from http://tinycorelinux.net/10.x/x86/release/src/kernel/config-4.19.10-tinycore. There is no


--- Code: ---CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
--- End code ---

configuration flag set. Quite quaint since PAE is available on all CPUs starting circa 1995-1999 (there were a couple of exceptions, long time defunct now).

So, is there any reason not to enable PAE on x86 (Tiny)Core ?

Rich:
Hi SeventhSin

--- Quote from: SeventhSin on July 16, 2019, 01:33:51 PM --- ... So, is there any reason not to enable PAE on x86 (Tiny)Core ?
--- End quote ---
This was the first reason I found, there may be other threads with more info:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,20282.msg126269.html#msg126269

If your processor is 64 bit, you can run a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit apps:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,22306.msg139639.html#msg139639
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,20089.msg124921.html#msg124921

SeventhSin:
Hi Rich,


--- Quote from: Rich on July 16, 2019, 01:50:29 PM ---If your processor is 64 bit, you can run a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit apps:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,22306.msg139639.html#msg139639
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,20089.msg124921.html#msg124921

--- End quote ---

There is no official ISO for (Tiny)Core64 on https://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html & subsections. I found it mentioned in some old threads I had been reading, but the absence of an official ISO makes me wonder if it is something that has been merely overlooked for 10x or it is not supposed to exists at all.

Juanito:
There has never been an iso for Core64, but it works

SeventhSin:

--- Quote from: Juanito on July 16, 2019, 03:50:06 PM ---There has never been an iso for Core64, but it works

--- End quote ---

That it works, I have no doubt.  ::)

That being said, which is the best forum section to put forth a suggestion/request for such an addition to the website download section?  :-[ ???

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