Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory =

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :) When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? One of those two. You sure you didn't install a 64-bit version of Ubuntu? Fairly sure :)

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? Yes, AFAIK some newer Linuxes (and Windows SP2) include PAE by default. ___

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:55, Jeff MacDonald wrote: Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :) When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? One of those two.

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten past the randomly decides not to reboot when told to issue? Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely non-responsive. I've heard of this

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten past the randomly decides not to reboot when told to issue? Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely

Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) avail memory =

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory =

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Jay Chandler
Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real memory = 3489300480

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:47 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this real

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
How about running top. do sysctl -a|grep shm or grep sem or all memory related configs and look into /etc/sysctl.conf may be something in configs is stealing away your 4G Apologies if you already knew this and if I am stating the obvious. regards Dak On 1/10/07, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:42:59PM -0800, Jay Chandler wrote: Jeff MacDonald wrote: Hi, I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG 786432k above 4GB ignored

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
if you calculate the 32bit addressing capability 2^32 -1 = 4294967296 - 1 = 4GB -1 you could counter I/O space, IRQ space for all the devices attached. I have heard something like parity interleave(I may be misspelling that word, but sounds close), you can knock off some more memory for

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-10 Thread Jay Chandler
Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: if you calculate the 32bit addressing capability 2^32 -1 = 4294967296 - 1 = 4GB -1 you could counter I/O space, IRQ space for all the devices attached. I have heard something like parity interleave(I may be misspelling that word, but sounds close), you can knock