Yes, my comment was for PAE. With Slitaz 4 (I realised Kultex, above, was probably playing with cooking).
It worked this time, i had selected the pentium pro architecture, i believe. Will do some more testing when time allows.
The previous PAE test a few months ago i had selected a more advanced processor type (dont remember which one), it compiled, and many things did not work as expected, I apologize I did not notes on what I did.
I think the compile time is in the 20-25minutes range.
I have an i5 with 8GB and _64 ubuntu like, and probably use routinely about 4-5 GB just for applications; a large chunk is used for buffers and the rest as cache.
As much as I love Slitaz, I have not been able to switch completely to it, there has always been a piece missing, the gap has slowly been filled in in the last 3 years however... Now it supports > 4GB, I will reconsider that, if I can solve the daily backup issue ;)