On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Aldo F. Saavedra <a.saave...@physics.usyd.edu.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having the following problem with an invariant of SL56, the cern > flavour. I thought perhaps that someone may have come across this > with SL56 > > Here in Sydney, we installed slc56 x86_64 on a Dell Power Edge R510 with > 48Gb of RAM. > > The problem we have is that once the os is installed slc56 top, free and > vmstat only reports 32Gb. All the yum updates were performed. > > To check we booted with the rescue mode, SLC 5.6 and all the commands report > 48Gb . > > A further check we installed RHEL 5.6 x86_64 it reports 48Gb . > > Is there some tweak to the kernel that needs to be done? Or any cause to the > problem. Any ideas are much appreciated.
That's a significant chunk of RAM for such an old codebase. Is there any reason not to simply update to SL 6.0 and avoid the support problems?
