[rhelv6-list] RHEL6 x86 on system with 4 GB memory

[Kirby Zhou]

Since your system is very old, you should upgrade your BIOS first.
For example, on old HP DL380 G4 server, you can only get about 3.4G ram,
after upgrading, you can get 3.94G.


  Regards
  Kirby Zhou

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Ben
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:25 PM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list
Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] RHEL6 x86 on system with 4 GB memory

On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Jonathan M. Polom wrote:

> I have Red Hat 6 x86 installed on a Pentium 4 system with 4 GB system 
> memory. Although the default kernel has PAE capability (no modules in 
> lsmod but it's a requirement for the x86 variant so it's likely compiled 
> in) it claims total system memory is about 3.3GB (via top or gnome 
> performance monitor). How do you get RHEL6 to see >= 4GB memory? Is it a 
> kernel argument or something else?

Does the system have an onboard graphics subsystem which might be snaffling 
some of your system RAM?

Ben
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Unix Support, MISD, University of Cambridge, England
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