Thanks Leonard, Thanks for the immedite reply . apprecite. actually many post s say the PAE kernel required for addressing more than 4 gb ram . but since my server already detects 32 gb ram , detecting 64 also should not be an issue.. but just wondering why??. regards simon On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Leonard den Ottolander < leonard at den.ottolander.nl> wrote: > Hello Sylvan, > > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:10 +0000, sylvan.dcunha at gmail.com wrote: > > Kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen on an x86_64 > > > I do believe that installing kernel PAE with yum should solve the > > problem but since the server is a online production server just wanted > > to verify if I would run into some problems > > I have no idea why your server doesn't see the extra 32GB, but you do > *not* need a PAE kernel. PAE is a hack for 32bit system to use more than > 4GB of memory. Your machine is a 64bit system, so you don't need a PAE > kernel on it. > > Regards, > Leonard. > > -- > mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110826/16820813/attachment-0005.html>