4GB installed - RH reports 3.2?!?

Greg Golin greg.golin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 14:56:58 UTC 2005


I havent been following the thread, so let me ask you this: is your
server based on an iWill motherboard?

GG

On 9/23/05, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/23/05, Smith, Albert <Albert.Smith at genexservices.com> wrote:
> > The General Rule of thumb is < 4G use the standarded kernel 4G > use the
> > hugemem kernel. It won't hurt anything if you use the hugemem kernel and
> > not have a greater then or equalk to 4gig. It just opens up some
> > additional addressing and it could help with memory detection.
>
> The release notes seem to suggest it is only necessary for systems
> with either more than 16GB of memory or for systems where one wants
> 4GB per process user space and mentions that it does introduce extra
> overhead which may or may not be something you notice. Anyway, won't
> hurt anything to try it or the SMP kernel. Both have PAE support and
> both support well more than 4GB of memory.
>
> I still wonder if this isn't the PCI hole reserved for 32-bit support
> though ... it sounds very much like that to me.
>
> John
>
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