Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:12:21 +1100
From:  Xin CHEN <xchen (at mark) housleyconsulting.com.au>
Subject:  [coba-e:15337] Re: System Memory 4G only 3G available
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Mon,

Thanks, I have the following:
kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL

I will try kernel-hugemem first and see how it goes. I may update  
kernel-smp as well.

Thanks again!
-tim

On 16/03/2009, at 9:25 PM, Mon Chan wrote:

> 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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