RHEL 4 or 5 AS 64Bit OS
Esquivel, Vicente
Esquivelv at uhd.edu
Thu Aug 16 13:30:12 UTC 2007
Thanks Steve,
Do you know if the memory issue was resolved with any of the updates to
RHEL4? Which update of RHEL 4 were you using for the initial
installation?
Thanks
Vince
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Clark
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:31 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: RHEL 4 or 5 AS 64Bit OS
>
> We run RHEL 4 64bit on the Dell 2950's with 16GB of memory
> (2x Woodcrest 2.66Ghz). Works well with no problems. The
> only issue we ran into is that the OS will not load with all
> 16GB of memory installed in the box. The install will hang
> up on installing /loader. The work around is that you will
> need to remove a few sticks of the memory out of the server
> for the install, and then put the memory back in afterwards.
> This only happens on the 2950 model, the 2850/6850/6950
> models do not have this issue.
>
> If your application supports 64bit, I would recommend
> installing the 64bit RHEL, especially since you have 16GB of
> memory. I have heard of a few issues with running RHEL 32bit
> on systems with 16GB of more of memory. Again we have had no
> problems with our 64bit clusters running on 2950's.
>
> -=Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Esquivel, Vicente
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:12 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RHEL 4 or 5 AS 64Bit OS
>
> Hello all,
>
>
> Is anyone running 64bit RHEL 4 or 5 AS on an intel based Dell
> Power Edge 2950 with 2x(dual core) Xeon Woodcrest processors
> with 16GB of RAM, since this is not true 64bit hardware but
> rather it is 32bit with 64bit extensions. Dell claims that
> it supports 64bit RHEL on this hardware.
>
> Can anyone tell me if there are having problems doing this
> or if there would be anything I should take into
> consideration when trying to decide to run 32bit RHEL or
> 64bit RHEL. The application I will running on this server
> supports both 32 or 64 bit.
>
> Vince
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