[CentOS-virt] Unable to use all the memory available

Tue Feb 21 21:22:28 UTC 2012
Henry Addington <hs.addington at gmail.com>

Hi James,

The server is Sun x4600 M2 which can handle 256GB memory according to
Sun/Oracle Document... During the boot up, I can see the all the memory
being counted. So, I think the BIOS is recognizing all the memory....
Thanks.

HS



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:28 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>wrote:

>
> On Tue, February 21, 2012 02:23, Henry Addington wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > As you can see from xm info below, we have almost 200GB of
> > memory in our
> > server running CentOS 5.2. But, we can't seem to allocate
> > all the memory.
> > For some reason, the total memory that can be allocated
> > maxes out at 188.4
> > GB. None of the VMs has hit its own max-mem limit. Even
> > when we set one of
> > the VM's memory so the total is above 188.4 GB, its memory
> > allocation stops
> > when the total memory allocation reaches 188.4 GB.
> >
> > Thanks for your assistance.
> >
>
> What is the hardware limit for the server?
>
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