Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-14 Thread Charles Galpin
very interesting. Are there any downsides to running one of these on say a 500mhz AMD athlon with 256MB of ram? In other words, do these "enterprise" optimizaions hurt you if you aren't running some serious iron? Would I be better off just getting the patches i am most interested in (like 64-bit f

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm not 100% positive this will work, but try the "enterprise" > > version ofthe kernel: > > is there something unique about the enterprise kernel, or does it > come pre-configured with special settings that you could select > from a stan

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-13 Thread rpjday
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not 100% positive this will work, but try the "enterprise" > version ofthe kernel: is there something unique about the enterprise kernel, or does it come pre-configured with special settings that you could select from a standard kernel, if you knew which settings

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-13 Thread Jim Simmons
I'm not 100% positive this will work, but try the "enterprise" version of the kernel: rpm -qip kernel-enterprise-2.2.16-22.i686.rpm Name: kernel-enterpriseRelocations: (not relocateable) Version: 2.2.16Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release: 22

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-10 Thread John Indra
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:05:04AM -0500, Robert Fausey wrote: |You should not have to recompile the kernel in 7.0 for it to recognize the |4G of memory, unless there is something wrong with the kernel that ships. Are you sure? Anybody else can strengthen this statement? |6.2 will recognize 4G

RE: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-08 Thread Matthews, John
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: You should not have to recompile the kernel in 7.0 for it to recognize the 4G of memory, unless there is something wrong with the kernel that ships. 6.2 will recognize 4G of memory out of the box

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Fausey
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Nitebirdz wrote: You should not have to recompile the kernel in 7.0 for it to recognize the 4G of memory, unless there is something wrong with the kernel that ships. 6.2 will recognize 4G of memory out of the box with no recompile (been there done that). The 6.2 kernel and I

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-08 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, John Indra wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:06:13AM -0500, Statux wrote: > > |You'll have to recompile your kernel one way or another... Linux 2.4.x > |supports memory that high natively, I think... but 2.2.x will have to be > |patched... no clue where to get a patch from

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-08 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:09:38PM +0700, John Indra wrote: : Then, the only visible solution is to upgrade to 2.4.x? There ARE patches for 2.2, but the 2.4.0-test series has been pretty stable overall.. : Is the kernel upgrading process to 2.4.x easy on Red Hat 7.0? Very easy. Pretty much a "

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-08 Thread John Indra
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:06:13AM -0500, Statux wrote: |You'll have to recompile your kernel one way or another... Linux 2.4.x |supports memory that high natively, I think... but 2.2.x will have to be |patched... no clue where to get a patch from though. *sigh* Then, the only visible solution

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-07 Thread Statux
You'll have to recompile your kernel one way or another... Linux 2.4.x supports memory that high natively, I think... but 2.2.x will have to be patched... no clue where to get a patch from though. Simply specifying mem=4096M will do nothing if the kernel doesn't support it. Once the kernel is pat

Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-07 Thread John Indra
Hello everyone... I manage a server with this spec: 4 (Quad) Pentium III Xeon 700 MHz 4 GB PC100 RAM After I installed Red Hat 7.0, the system only recognized 896 MB of the installed RAM (dmesg snippets following): -- dmesg snippet -- Linux version 2.2.16-22smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version