Date:  Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:27:41 -0500
From:  Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15320] Re: System Memory 4G only 3G available
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Xin CHEN wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This maybe the old issue but I couldn't find in the list. We have 4G 
> memory installed on BQ Server but the system only shows 3G. The 
> motherboard has been confirmed support 4GB memory. Google it and seems I 
> need to re-install the kernel with PAE support? Is there any easier way 
> to do it - It is a production Server...
> 
> Thanks,
> tim

Google told you half-correctly.  CentOS 4 does not have PAE kernel 
support.  You'll need to try kernel-hugemem instead.   You can yum 
install kernel-hugemem if you like.

CentOS 5 (on which BlueOnyx is based) does, of course, support PAE kernel.

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