Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:18 AM, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some > more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I > am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the > morning when I am, hopefully,

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am, hopefully, awake before I make the final decision. Good night. Reg

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 6:31 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Your 32-bit applications will be restricted to 4 Gb of memory each > anyway. sctually, they only get 2 or 3gb of that for user space, the other 1 or 2gb of the 32bit space is used by the kernel which is in every process address space. I believe w

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > If that is the case then both CentOS 5 and 6 are not viable for us. I > will have to go for RHEL5 (or possibly 6) which does support the > memory in 32-bit mode. The limit's the same with RHEL 5 and 6. CentOS is "bug-for-bug compatible" wit

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 4:22 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > The reason for the restriction to 32-bit is because of other software > that we must run that does not work correctly on a 64-bit OS. fix that other software. or run in 16GB. there's no excuse in 2012 for not supporting 64bit, even my budget lapt

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/19/12 4:13 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Joseph L. Casale Sent: June 19, 2012 15:52 >>> > > title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) >>> > > root (hd0,0) >>> > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] >>> > > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 4:22 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: > From: Yves Bellefeuille Sent: June 19, 2012 15:55 >> >> I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was >> limited to 16 >> Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should >> use x86_64. > > If that is the case

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Yves Bellefeuille Sent: June 19, 2012 15:55 > > I can't find the limit for CentOS 6, but CentOS 5 x86 was > limited to 16 > Gb of RAM: https://www.centos.org/product.html . You should > use x86_64. If that is the case then both CentOS 5 and 6 are not viable for us. I will have to go for

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > Yes it is 32-bit but if there is a 16GB limit on memory then I am > going to need to revert to CentOS 5. Same limit in CentOS 5. Is there a reason you don't want to use x86_64? -- Yves Bellefeuille "La Esperanta Civito ne rifuzas anticip

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Joseph L. Casale Sent: June 19, 2012 15:52 > > title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] > > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img > > mem=26624M > > Do i read that right? 26g

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Scott Silva Sent: June 19, 2012 15:51 > > It looks like you installed 32 bit OS... I don't think it > sees over 16 gigs... Yes it is 32-bit but if there is a 16GB limit on memory then I am going to need to revert to CentOS 5. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.for

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Tuesday 19 June 2012, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it > does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. > The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: > > Mem: 15720140k total, 418988k used, 15

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
> title CentOS (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686 ro [SNIP] > initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.i686.img > mem=26624M Do i read that right? 26g of ram and you're using a non PAE x86 kernel? _

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Scott Silva
on 6/19/2012 3:37 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: > Hi All: > > I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does > not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS > is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: > > Mem: 15720140k total,

[CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-19 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Hi All: I have an HP DL380G5 server which I am loading CentOS 6.2 on and it does not appear to recognize all of the RAM installed on the server. The BIOS is reporting 26GB however top is reporting: Mem: 15720140k total, 418988k used, 15301152k free, 30256k buffers Swap: 17956856k total,