Rockin'! Thank you for replying. Looks like I have some testing to do. John
> -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Lindsell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Max amount of RAM in 7.2 question > > > At 10:18 21/01/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >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? > > The memory limit for 7.2 is that of the kernel. I believe > that the default > Redhat 7.2 > kernel supports 4GB, however the 2.4 kernels will support up > to 64GB if > configured > correctly. > Install the kernel source tree with rpm, then:- > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 > make menuconfig > > In "Processor type and features" you can set High Memory > Support from 4GB > to 64GB. > > Then build and install the kernel + modules and configure the > bootloader > to boot it. > > hih > nick@nexnix > > > > > -- > 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
