FC6 - Incorrect Memory size

[CC Chaman]

Dave / Jim - Thank you. Will try it out later today - but I think that
should do it!


On 2/12/07, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>
> CC Chaman wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First post, so please forgive if this is in the wrong board.
> >
> > I've installed Zod on a Dell 2950 with 8 GB Ram. The 2.6.18 kernel only
> > reports 4GB, so I decided to do an "yum upgrade" ... excpet now with the
> > 2.6.19 kernel I only have 3.2 GB
> >
> > Here's the top output:
> > Mem:   3368804k total,   743888k used,  2624916k free,    43428k buffers
> > Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   429312k cached
> >
> >
> > Here's the fun part...when I boot with Xen - Ram is reported correctly?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated!
> >
> > ( I did try setting kernel parameter mem=8192M ... does not work)
> >
> > Thankx
> >
> > CC-
> >
> >
>
> You probably need to be running the PAE version of the kernel since you
> have memory in excess of 4 GB. The link is below. The normal kernel only
> does 4 GB maximum.
>
>
> http://linuxmirror.museum.state.il.us/Fedora/core/6/updates/i386/repodata/repoview/kernel-PAE-0-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.html
>
> Jim
>
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