[rhn-users] Hugemem and bigmem kernels

[Jon Etkins]

I have a Dell 6600 with quad 3.0GHz P4's and 16GB of RAM running RHES AS3.
I'm experiencing slowdowns due to poor memory management which sees large
amounts of disk I/O bringing the machine to its knees with processes at
75%+ iowait.

I was wondering if a bigmem or hugemem kernel would help this situation,
but up2date only wants to pull the regular EL and ELsmp kernels.  Is there
a way to have it pull the large memory kernels as well?  If I run
up2date --get kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-4.0.2.EL.i686
will the hugemem kernel be added to the update list from that point on, or
will I have to manually update it each time?

Thanks,

Jon Etkins
IT Administration & Support
Austin Logistics, Inc
ph:  (512) 651-5641
fax: (512) 329-5625



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