Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:46:39 +1100
From:  Xin CHEN <xchen (at mark) housleyconsulting.com.au>
Subject:  [coba-e:15322] Re: System Memory 4G only 3G available
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick response!
I will try that when I am physically with the Server and post back the  
result.


Thanks,
tim

On 16/03/2009, at 10:27 AM, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Chris Gebhardt
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