memory limits to es3, u4

[chuck lawrence]

greetings,

I've just built my third dual-processor dual-core opteron server.  for 
application reasons, I'm using RHES 3.0, U4.  RHES only supports 2 
processors, and this looks like 4.  but that's not my concern, necessarily.

I bought the server w/8gb ram, but the os only sees 3gb.  the bios sees 
it all, and it tests ok, but top and /proc/meminfo both say 3gb.  kernel 
is  2.4.21-27.ELsmp

is this a known issue, or is it just me?  do I need to update something?

p.s. I stumbled across a suggestion to add "mem=8000M" to grub.conf, but 
that hasn't helped.

adv(thanks)ance

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