-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maybe the hugemem kernel ? []s On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:51:15AM -0500, Drew Weaver wrote: > Fedora has a PAE kernel which is useful in instances like this, what > would be the CentOS alternative to that? > > -Drew > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:47 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 4.4 not seeing all RAM > > Hi Everyone, > > My server is only seeing 4.8 GB out of 6 GB available. I don't know > why. > > I have a CentOS 4.4 x86_64 server running on a Tyan s2895 with 6 GB of > RAM (two 1 GB sticks and 2 2 GB sticks). I upgraded the RAM, powered up > the server, and when CentOS was finished booting, checked the available > RAM with free. This is what it's reporting: > > total used free shared > buffers cached > Mem: 4809064 4769492 39572 0 197156 > 3127704 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1444632 3364432 > Swap: 2064376 176 2064200 > > The BIOS sees all of the RAM. In fact, it looks to me like the kernel > knows 6 GB is available. But, it is only using 4.8 GB because I see > this in dmesg: > > Memory: 4808464k/6291456k available (2106k kernel code, 0k reserved, > 1299k data, 196k init) > > What happened to the other 1 GB+ of RAM? > > BTW, the server isn't running all the newest updates, but it is running > the latest CentOS 4 kernel (2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp). > > Regards, > > Ranbir > -- > Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu > Linux 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux > 11:39:08 up 2 days, 10:28, 2 users, load average: 1.18, 0.64, 0.60 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF7E2GpdyWzQ5b5ckRAlASAJ9nu63UQ+HmedDBr0unIMbgfU6uygCeIRKZ eIOukure08+2NKLeHKUqBH4= =7U6r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----