4GB installed - RH reports 3.2?!?

[Cannon, Andrew]

I don't know what motherboard the system is based on, but it is a HP xw4300
workstation.  As far as I know, the motherboard is based on the Intel 955
chipset, so should be able to read all 4GB of memory.  I'll (hopefully) be
installing WS 4 U1 tonight, so I'll know more in the morning.  Looking at
the release notes, I notice that the SMP kernel is installed by default when
I have HT enabled (which it is).  So I'll soon be able to see if I can see
all 4GB of memory.


Thanks for the help so far.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Golin [mailto:greg.golin at gmail.com]
Sent: 23 September 2005 15:57
To: inode0; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: 4GB installed - RH reports 3.2?!?


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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