PE 1950 CentOS 5 Missing memory?

[Marc Wiatrowski]

Yep found it.  Defaults to Spare...  thanks!

$ omreport chassis memory
Memory Information

Health : Ok

Memory Redundancy:Ok

Redundancy Status        : Full
Fail Over State          : Inactive
Redundancy Configuration : Spare


$ omconfig chassis memorymode -?
memorymode       Set memory redundancy mode.
Valid parameters are:
index=<number>                            Chassis index (defaults to 0).
redundancy=<spare|mirror|raid5|disabled>  Memory redundancy mode.


On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:00 -0500, Linux PowerEdge wrote:

> Marc,
> 
> It sounds like you may have one of the memory "raid" configurations
> enabled in the system's BIOS.
> You should check the bios configuration for memory sparing, or memory
> raid, or redundant memory, or memory mirroring (although not expecting
> this since you see 12 of 16 instead of 8 of 16) but you get the idea.
>  ;-)
> 
> It should be under the 'memory information' option, i believe.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Marc Wiatrowski <mwia at iglass.net> wrote:
> > I've got a PE 1950 running 32bit CentOS 5, PAE kernel with 8 2G sticks.   I
> > should see 16G
> > right?  Or at least close to it?
> >
> > Unless I am missing something (which could be) all I see is 12G?
> >
> > I'm assuming from the omreport the bios sees the 16G but isn't letting the
> > OS have it?
> >
> > I saw the post/replies on Jared's missing memory issue last month, but I'm
> > not running the 64bit OS
> > nor anything xen...
> >
> > thanks,
> > marc
> >
> > uname -rv
> > 2.6.18-92.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Jun 10 19:22:41 EDT 2008
> >
> > omreport system summary:
> > Memory
> > Total Installed Capacity   : 16384 MB
> > Memory Available to the OS : 12176 MB
> > Total Maximum Capacity     : 32768 MB
> > Memory Array Count         : 1
> >
> > Memory Array 1
> > Location                   : System Board or Motherboard
> > Use                        : System Memory
> > Installed Capacity         : 16384 MB
> > Maximum Capacity           : 32768 MB
> > Slots Available            : 8
> > Slots Used                 : 8
> > ECC Type                   : Multibit ECC
> >
> >
> > trimmed dmidecode:
> > BIOS Information
> >         Vendor: Dell Inc.
> >         Version: 2.0.1
> >         Release Date: 10/27/2007
> > System Information
> >         Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
> >         Product Name: PowerEdge 1950
> > Processor Information
> >         Socket Designation: CPU1
> >         Family: Xeon
> >         Manufacturer: Intel
> >         Flags:
> >                 PAE (Physical address extension)
> > Processor Information
> >         Socket Designation: CPU2
> >         Family: Xeon
> >         Manufacturer: Intel
> >         Flags:
> >                 PAE (Physical address extension)
> >
> > Physical Memory Array
> >         Maximum Capacity: 32 GB
> >         Number Of Devices: 8
> >
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM1
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM2
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM3
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM4
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM5
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM6
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM7
> > Memory Device
> >         Size: 2048 MB
> >         Locator: DIMM8
> >
> > top:
> > Mem:  12468388k total,  3911928k used,  8556460k free,   308576k buffers
> >
> > /proc/meminfo:
> > MemTotal:     12468388 kB
> > MemFree:       8559312 kB
> > Buffers:        308576 kB
> > Cached:        3016624 kB
> > SwapCached:          0 kB
> > Active:        3490800 kB
> > Inactive:       268068 kB
> > HighTotal:    11660608 kB
> > HighFree:      8160420 kB
> > LowTotal:       807780 kB
> > LowFree:        398892 kB
> > SwapTotal:     8388592 kB
> > SwapFree:      8388592 kB
> > Dirty:            2016 kB
> > Writeback:           0 kB
> > AnonPages:      433724 kB
> > Mapped:         154076 kB
> > Slab:            95488 kB
> > PageTables:      39796 kB
> > NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
> > Bounce:              0 kB
> > CommitLimit:  14622784 kB
> > Committed_AS:  1042420 kB
> > VmallocTotal:   116728 kB
> > VmallocUsed:      8008 kB
> > VmallocChunk:   108408 kB
> > HugePages_Total:     0
> > HugePages_Free:      0
> > HugePages_Rsvd:      0
> > Hugepagesize:     2048 kB
> >
> >
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