[bitfolk] Upgrading to Wheezy

Hi everyone,

I'm a bit late to the Wheezy upgrade party, but successfully got the job
done over the weekend. This has been third dist-upgrade for this VPS,
having started life as an Etch box :-)

One minor gotcha for a VPS of this age is that it started out with a
xen kernel image (my /boot dir still has an Etch era
vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-686 kernel), and Wheezy no longer provides a
separate xen kernel (in fact, it would seem that a xen kernel image
wasn't necessary in a domU in Squeeze).

Switching over to the default kernel from the linux-image-686 meta
package was therefore the way to go. This installs the 686-pae variant,
although I note that the Bitfolk Wiki page suggests the 686-bigmem
kernel, which has 4Gb+ memory support. Is there any particular benefit
to running a bigmem kernel on a smaller VPS with less than 4GB RAM?

--
Phil