Ugh. I hope not. I wonder why a motherboard would support 6 GB, then. I've never worked with Linux with more than 2GB, so I've never run into this issue before. Machines that have had 4 or 8 GB (or more) of RAM for me have always been Solaris or AIX boxes.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Max amount of RAM in 7.2 question > > > 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
