Physical memory present on a machine

[Nilesh Bansal]

> My understanding is that the athlon kernel variant is limited to 4G even
> for the SMP build.
Okay. thanks. But is there something like bigsmp version for athlon?
We are planning to add 8GB more RAM (making it to a total of 16GB) to
this machine.

> To check exactly what kernel you have :
> rpm -qa --queryformat="%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{ARCH}\n" kernel\*
It returns:
kernel-smp 2.4.21 athlon
kernel-utils 2.4 i386
kernel 2.4.21 athlon
kernel-pcmcia-cs 3.1.31 i386
kernel 2.4.21 athlon
kernel-doc 2.4.21 i386
kernel-source 2.4.21 i386
kernel-smp 2.4.21 athlon

> To be able to utilise more, install the i686 kernel.
> The i686 kernel may have a slight preformance hit running on th athlon CPU.
Any estimate how much this penalty be.

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Nilesh Bansal.
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