Pe 1950 and missing ram

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 9/10/07, Claudio De Luca <claudio at serverplan.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> i have a Pe 1950 with 4 gb of ram on Centos 5.0 but it show only 3290Mb
>
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          3290       2951        338          0        169       1110
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1672       1618
> Swap:         8001        128       7872
>
>
> dmidecode | grep 1024
>
>         ROM Size: 1024 kB
>         Size: 1024 MB
>         Size: 1024 MB
>         Size: 1024 MB
>         Size: 1024 MB
>
> this problem is present only on centos 5, previus release show full ram
> range
>

Problem is due to way big mem is handled between the EL-4 and EL-5
kernels. You need to use bigmem or 64 bit kernel if you want to see
all of the 4GB on your system.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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