Comment 3 for bug 179025

I agree

> ...Except that HIGHMEM64 kernel also fails to boot on everything that
> does not support PAE perfectly or has a slightest bug in the support.
> Keep in mind the present hardware requirements of Ubuntu (works even for
> old computers), and the fact that LTSes must be around for several
> years. PAE would cause problems with surprisingly many computers,
> including potentially new clone chips such as VIA's creations... The
> amount of uncontent from that move would me major.
>
> Furthermore there is 3-6% performance impact on everything memory
> related, and a single process still has 3G limitation in their
> addressing. This means that even computers with less than that 3G memory
> would get the performance hit. As much as I would want this to happen it
> is not feasible nor likely will be feasible to have such kernel as
> default. Just move into 64-bit Linux, it does run also every 32-bit
> application just fine. The time of running 32-bit distributions has been
> over for couple years already to be honest.
>
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
>
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> HIGHMEM64G is not enabled in Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179025
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