Since your system is very old, you should upgrade your BIOS first. For example, on old HP DL380 G4 server, you can only get about 3.4G ram, after upgrading, you can get 3.94G.
Regards Kirby Zhou -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:25 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] RHEL6 x86 on system with 4 GB memory On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Jonathan M. Polom wrote: > I have Red Hat 6 x86 installed on a Pentium 4 system with 4 GB system > memory. Although the default kernel has PAE capability (no modules in > lsmod but it's a requirement for the x86 variant so it's likely compiled > in) it claims total system memory is about 3.3GB (via top or gnome > performance monitor). How do you get RHEL6 to see >= 4GB memory? Is it a > kernel argument or something else? Does the system have an onboard graphics subsystem which might be snaffling some of your system RAM? Ben -- Unix Support, MISD, University of Cambridge, England Plugger of wire, typer of keyboard, imparter of Clue Life Is Short. It's All Good. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
