Hi Ira, I bumped into the same question some time ago - sending to iglu.org.il silently failed.
Here's why: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg48796.html Boaz. Ira Abramov wrote: > annoying! I just figured out why my posts to the list have disappeared > in the last couple of months... the @iglu.org.il alias no longer points > to huji. why is that? Uff... NM, here is the question again... > > ----- Forwarded message from Ira Abramov > > To: IGLU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Memory undectable on Intel server board S5000VCL > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:30:22 +0300 > > Howdie folks. > > I just transplanted my server to a new 1U Pizza. An amazing bargain. A > Quad-core Xeon on a dual-CPU Intel board (room for enhancement!) with 4G > of FBDIMMs, and two 500GB disks, all came to just over 10K NIS after > taxes. > > The problems I see so far: hardware raid doesn't work in Debian (There > are binary-only drivers for RHEL and SuSE EL), there are special > editions of the e1000 drivers that are supposed to speed up the network > through some partial off loading, I haven't read what they do yet. but > the problem I am having is the PCI memory mapping. It's set at "2.5GB" by > default in the BIOS, and Debian Etch comes up and indeed sees only > 2.5GB. I have set it up to 3.5G to lose less RAM, but I would still like > to use the rest of the RAM! I tried booting with ram=4G but still the > kernel sees only 3.5. I guess I need to use memmap= as well, but I don't > have that information. > > the only clue is this tiny line in the BIOS docs: > > -PAE mode and the equivalent Linux mode must be set to see > 2.5GB > of memory. > > but running the debian "bigmem" kernel with 4G or less has an unwanted > penalty on speed, doesn't it? > > any advice? > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
