Re: Is X79 Motherboard supported by latest "Centos 5.9" version?

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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Steve Brooks <steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
>
> > On 08/25/2013 03:15 PM, Steve Brooks wrote:
> >> Ok here is the memory and kernel information it doesn't state PAE yet it
> >> seems to recognise the 32G.
> >>
> >> [root@app2 ~]# uname -a
> >> Linux app2 2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jul 10 05:31:48 EDT 2013 i686
> >> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >> [root@app2 ~]# free
> >>                total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> >> Mem:       3574676     425772    3148904          0      26748
> 266128
> >> -/+ buffers/cache:     132896    3441780
> >> Swap:      4192924          0    4192924
> >> [root@app2 ~]#  cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
> >> MemTotal:      3574676 kB
> >>
> >>
> > > MemTotal:      3574676 kB = > MemTotal: 3,574,676 kB = 3.4GB, not 32GB
>


>
> [2] I am still confused how given the kernel reports as being
>
>      2.6.18-348.12.1.el5 #1 SMP
>
>      and not a PAE kernel.. Why am I seeing
>
>       MemTotal:      3574676 kB
>

free just outputs in kilobytes unless you pass it options.

So you're only looking at 3.5 GB of memory with a non-PAE kernel in CentOS
5 based on your numbers.  Go PAE and you'll be able to utilize the 32GB of
RAM.

# Megabytes
free -m

# Gigabytes
free -g

# any others options:
man free

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