I agree with JamesBond on this need. The other items are trivial (mostly non-existent on 4GB PCs).jamesbond wrote:Only performance impact is still dangling. ... BTW, I tested PAE Wary with shutdown - and it created a good savefile for me, hmm
2 Questions:
Can someone help me. Does anyone have a PAE ISO available for download that I can access for test? If so, post or send me a PM. I'm interested in testing the exact "Live" configurations you are using so that my measurements and reports can be consistent as much as possible with what's already been reported.
Edited: JamesBond's Wary. is here
Is there a hardinfo item which tells if PAE support is active in the running 32bit PUPs?.
Performance Expectations
On the performance, I want to share an experience: On a 2010 benchmark at a system center, we were not able to exercise the newer system for 2 reasons: it was so much faster that it was completing work faster than we could generate work for it? To overcome this, we had to create a timed-loop application to build enough of a load to make an attempt at comparison.
Then, on memory saturation, it was impossible due to the nature of the internet. 2 DS3 links inbound to the system failed saturate memory in such a way as to get a true measure.
Advice: We should not be too disappointed to find that the hardware PAE is just as effective at delivering pages as old frame management is. After all, the manufacturers have been doing this for over 10 years. (If fact I wouldn't be surprise if a manufacturer had only one model and doesn't tell us about it....since, in theory, a circuit design could be indistinguishable in real time.)
This community has...
JamesBond has produced a positive shockwave in the PUPs community. Thanks, enormously, for your work in helping all of us.
Everyone here has contributed as we have gone from problem identification, to measurements, to identifying the missing element(s), to producing a testbed, to testing, and hopefully (and I do mean hopefully) to 32bit ISO productions that take advantage of the finding. There are going to be many more users configuration that meet this memory model and thus, they will have a PUP solution available without thought...no matter what size they have from 512MB to 16GB.