On Tuesday 19 June 2012, "Hugh E Cruickshank" hugh@forsoft.com wrote:
I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting:
Mem: 15720140k total, 418988k used, 15301152k free, 30256k buffers Swap: 17956856k total, 0k used, 17956856k free, 135536k cached
title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686)
I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was limited to 16 Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should use x86_64.