[CentOS] Use 8GB RAM on Pentium D?

Mathew S. McCarrell mccarrms at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 01:40:51 UTC 2009


Neil,

I maintain a Dell PowerEdge 850 which has a Pentium D, exactly 8 GB of RAM,
and runs CentOS x86_64.  It should work fine as long as your motherboard
supports that much RAM.

Hope that helps.

Matt

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Mathew S. McCarrell
Clarkson University '10

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mccarrms at clarkson.edu


On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Neil Aggarwal <neil at jammconsulting.com>wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I have a Supermicro SuperServer 5015P-TR.
> It has a Pentium D and is running CentOS x86_64.
>
> Can this machine use 8GB RAM?
>
> I think it should because it is running a 64 bit
> OS, but I am concerned because it is fundamentally
> 32 bit hardware.
>
> Anyone have any experience in this area?
>
> Thanks,
>        Neil
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