On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 08:22 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > Thanks. Here are a couple follow-up question then. > > (1) If I start 2 separate VMWare processes, they should each be able to > grab 3GB of memory (more or less) - is that right?
More or less. The 3GB per partition is divided into distinct 1GB chunks. Google will explain in detail. > (2) My Dell box has 2 Xeon processors and I'm running the SMP kernel. > Even without CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G, should the 2 processor "split" access to > the memory, so that I can run 2 processes - one on each processor - that > have access to 3GB (more or less) each? This isn't MacOS, where you specify how much RAM you want each process to use. Also, I don't know if Linux allows you to pin processes to CPUs. Having said that, I don't know if VMware allows you limit the amount of RAM it uses itself. > -- Mark > > Aurelien Ricard wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 22:46 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I'm running debian on a dell poweredge 1750 and just intalled 6GB of > >>> memory. Its a dual-processor machine and I use it with VMWare to run > >>> multiple virtual machines. > >>> > >>> Problem - I can only "see" 4GB of memory. Here is the output from > >>> "free -m": > >>> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m > >>> total used free shared buffers > >>> cached > >>> Mem: 3995 3908 86 0 145 > >>> 2668 > >>> -/+ buffers/cache: 1094 2901 > >>> Swap: 2047 0 2047 > >>> > >>> > >>> What do I need to do in order to make the other 2GB of memory available? > >>> > >> > >> > >> Build your own kernel, setting the appropriate HIGHMEM option. > >> > >> $ grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386 > >> CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y > >> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > >> # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > >> > >> > >> > > Ron's right, you need to rebuild your kernel with high memory support > > enabled and everything gonna be OK with you 6GB > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "A hundred names on the ballot are better than one, because it means that we are free." FADILA SALEH, an Iraqi voter, 2005-01-30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]