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Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:25:42 +0800
From:  "Mon Chan" <mon (at mark) cyberec.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:15332] Re: System Memory 4G only 3G available
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
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Hi

My BQ server install 4G ram, but I can see 4G?

Give you some imformation.

[root@spop ~]# rpm -q kernel-smp
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL

cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      4151380 kB
MemFree:        210880 kB
Buffers:        139916 kB
Cached:        3380896 kB
SwapCached:        108 kB
Active:        3036364 kB
Inactive:       759452 kB
HighTotal:     3276672 kB
HighFree:       110336 kB
LowTotal:       874708 kB
LowFree:        100544 kB
SwapTotal:     4096532 kB
SwapFree:      4095996 kB
Dirty:            1936 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         286032 kB
Slab:           122936 kB
CommitLimit:   6172220 kB
Committed_AS:   835160 kB
PageTables:       5836 kB
VmallocTotal:   106488 kB
VmallocUsed:     11748 kB
VmallocChunk:    94600 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB
 
top

top - 18:25:38 up 226 days, 23:53,  3 users,  load average: 0.70, 0.67, 0.97
Tasks: 140 total,   3 running, 137 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  8.6% us,  2.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 88.7% id,  0.3% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Cpu1  : 15.3% us,  3.3% sy,  0.0% ni, 80.3% id,  1.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   4151380k total,  3959804k used,   191576k free,   140568k buffers
Swap:  4096532k total,      536k used,  4095996k free,  3392724k cached


Best regards, 
Mon Chan


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet [mailto:cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 7:28 AM
To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
Subject: [coba-e:15320] Re: System Memory 4G only 3G available

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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