Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am, hopefully, awake before I make the final decision. Good night.

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am,

[CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: Mem: 15720140k total, 418988k used, 15301152k free, 30256k buffers Swap: 17956856k total,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 3:37 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: Hi All: I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: Mem: 15720140k total,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img mem=26624M Do i read that right? 26g of ram and you're using a non PAE x86 kernel?

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: Mem: 15720140k total,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Scott Silva Sent: June 19, 2012 15:51 It looks like you installed 32 bit OS... I don't think it sees over 16 gigs... Yes it is 32-bit but if there is a 16GB limit on memory then I am going to need to revert to CentOS 5. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Joseph L. Casale Sent: June 19, 2012 15:52 title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img mem=26624M Do i read that right? 26g of ram and

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Yes it is 32-bit but if there is a 16GB limit on memory then I am going to need to revert to CentOS 5. Same limit in CentOS 5. Is there a reason you don't want to use x86_64? -- Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca La Esperanta

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Yves Bellefeuille Sent: June 19, 2012 15:55 I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was limited to 16 Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should use x86_64. If that is the case then both CentOS 5 and 6 are not viable for us. I will have to go for

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 4:22 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: From: Yves Bellefeuille Sent: June 19, 2012 15:55 I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was limited to 16 Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should use x86_64. If that is the case then both

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 4:13 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: From: Joseph L. Casale Sent: June 19, 2012 15:52 title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 4:22 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: The reason for the restriction to 32-bit is because of other software that we must run that does not work correctly on a 64-bit OS. fix that other software. or run in 16GB. there's no excuse in 2012 for not supporting 64bit, even my budget

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: If that is the case then both CentOS 5 and 6 are not viable for us. I will have to go for RHEL5 (or possibly 6) which does support the memory in 32-bit mode. The limit's the same with RHEL 5 and 6. CentOS is bug-for-bug

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 6:31 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Your 32-bit applications will be restricted to 4 Gb of memory each anyway. sctually, they only get 2 or 3gb of that for user space, the other 1 or 2gb of the 32bit space is used by the kernel which is in every process address space. I believe