I am sure this has been covered before, but I can find it in my archives. I loaded up a new server IBM x3650, 2x Intel dual core cpu's I installed additional RAM to take it up to 7 gigs according to http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven CentOS 5 x86 which I am using supports up to 16gigs of RAM. Once I boot up CentOS only see's about 3.2Gigs of Ram. I installed the kernel-PAE package and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5. Searching on the web the suggestions are that I done the above, as I have done to sort out my problem buy nothing seems to work. Any help would be much appreciated Allan To read FirstRand Bank's Disclaimer for this email click on the following address or copy into your Internet browser: https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail to firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/42a17db1/attachment.html>
When you do a 'uname -r' what is the result? Also, what are you looking at to determine available RAM? From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Van Staden, Allan Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:22 PM To: CentOS at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] FW: Memory Problem I am sure this has been covered before, but I can find it in my archives. I loaded up a new server IBM x3650, 2x Intel dual core cpu's I installed additional RAM to take it up to 7 gigs according to http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven <http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven> CentOS 5 x86 which I am using supports up to 16gigs of RAM. Once I boot up CentOS only see's about 3.2Gigs of Ram. I installed the kernel-PAE package and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5. Searching on the web the suggestions are that I done the above, as I have done to sort out my problem buy nothing seems to work. Any help would be much appreciated Allan To read FirstRand Bank's Disclaimer for this email click on the following address or copy into your Internet browser: https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html <https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html> If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail to firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za <mailto:firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za> and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/053834b3/attachment.html>
Ah. You're not running the PAE kernel. Reboot the box, and bring up the grub menu. Choose the PAE kernel. Then you'll see what you're supposed to and can uninstall the other kernel(s) From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Van Staden, Allan Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] FW: Memory Problem Uname -r = 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 I installed webmin and from there I see that the total memory is 2.96 GB and when I run top it shows Mem: 3107572k total. Allan From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Damien Solodow Sent: 14 February 2008 10:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] FW: Memory Problem When you do a 'uname -r' what is the result? Also, what are you looking at to determine available RAM? From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Van Staden, Allan Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:22 PM To: CentOS at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] FW: Memory Problem I am sure this has been covered before, but I can find it in my archives. I loaded up a new server IBM x3650, 2x Intel dual core cpu's I installed additional RAM to take it up to 7 gigs according to http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven <http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven> CentOS 5 x86 which I am using supports up to 16gigs of RAM. Once I boot up CentOS only see's about 3.2Gigs of Ram. I installed the kernel-PAE package and upgraded my kernel to 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5. Searching on the web the suggestions are that I done the above, as I have done to sort out my problem buy nothing seems to work. Any help would be much appreciated Allan To read FirstRand Bank's Disclaimer for this email click on the following address or copy into your Internet browser: https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html <https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html> If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail to firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za <mailto:firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za> and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer. To read FirstRand Bank's Disclaimer for this email click on the following address or copy into your Internet browser: https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html <https://www.fnb.co.za/disclaimer.html> If you are unable to access the Disclaimer, send a blank e-mail to firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za <mailto:firstrandbankdisclaimer at fnb.co.za> and we will send you a copy of the Disclaimer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/f2e9a480/attachment.html>
on 2/14/2008 12:22 PM Van Staden, Allan spake the following:> > > I am sure this has been covered before, but I can find it in my archives. > > I loaded up a new server IBM x3650, 2x Intel dual core cpu?s I installed > additional RAM to take it up to 7 gigs according to > http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven CentOS 5 x86 which I am using > supports up to 16gigs of RAM. Once I boot up CentOS only see?s about > 3.2Gigs of Ram. > > > > I installed the kernel-PAE package and upgraded my kernel to > 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5. > > > > Searching on the web the suggestions are that I done the above, as I > have done to sort out my problem buy nothing seems to work. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated >Are there any options in the server to map memory differently? Does the bios see the memory when the system boots? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080214/be4e7ac8/attachment.sig>
Van Staden, Allan wrote:> > I am sure this has been covered before, but I can find it in my archives. > > I loaded up a new server IBM x3650, 2x Intel dual core cpu?s I > installed additional RAM to take it up to 7 gigs according to > <http://www.centos.org/product.html#seven>CentOS 5 x86 which I am > using supports up to 16gigs of RAM. Once I boot up CentOS only see?s > about 3.2Gigs of Ram. >with 7G of ram, I'd install x86_64