[CentOS] Is X79 Motherboard supported by latest "Centos 5.9" version?
SilverTip257
silvertip257 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 25 19:59:03 UTC 2013
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Steve Brooks <steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
> > On 08/25/2013 03:15 PM, Steve Brooks wrote:
> >> Ok here is the memory and kernel information it doesn't state PAE yet it
> >> seems to recognise the 32G.
> >>
> >> [root at app2 ~]# uname -a
> >> Linux app2 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jul 10 05:31:48 EDT 2013 i686
> >> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >> [root at app2 ~]# free
> >> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> >> Mem: 3574676 425772 3148904 0 26748
> 266128
> >> -/+ buffers/cache: 132896 3441780
> >> Swap: 4192924 0 4192924
> >> [root at app2 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
> >> MemTotal: 3574676 kB
> >>
> >>
> > > MemTotal: 3574676 kB = > MemTotal: 3,574,676 kB = 3.4GB, not 32GB
>
>
> [2] I am still confused how given the kernel reports as being
>
> 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 #1 SMP
>
> and not a PAE kernel.. Why am I seeing
>
> MemTotal: 3574676 kB
>
free just outputs in kilobytes unless you pass it options.
So you're only looking at 3.5 GB of memory with a non-PAE kernel in CentOS
5 based on your numbers. Go PAE and you'll be able to utilize the 32GB of
RAM.
# Megabytes
free -m
# Gigabytes
free -g
# any others options:
man free
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Mike
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