Isn't 4 GB the maximum addressable space in an architecture that uses 32-bit addressing?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:18 PM Subject: Max amount of RAM in 7.2 question > > Greetings - > > I've scoured Google and redhat.com most of the morning for a specific > answer, but haven't found it. Hopefully someone here will have it. > > I have a Compaq ProLiant server with RH 7.2 SMP (2.4.9-31smp kernel). Up > until this morning, it had 1.25 GB of RAM. This morning I installed 6 GB > RAM, replacing the existing 1.25 GB. The hardware supports 6 GB, and 6 GB > shows up fine in the BIOS POST. > > However, dmesg, /proc/meminfo, and "free -m" shows that only 4 GB was picked > up when the server was restarted. > > Is 4 GB a hard maximum limit for 7.2? Is there a hard maximum limit, and if > so, what is it? > > I did find something on redhat.com that said I could use "mem=XXM" at boot > to tell the kernel that there is 6 GB there and not just 4. Is that > correct? I would pass "mem=6144M" to the kernel at boot? > > - John > > ============================================ > John Turner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 248-488-3466 > Advertising Audit Service > http://www.aas.com > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
