RE: > 4GB memory on HP DL380

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Ok, thanks!

:) 

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marcos Aurelio
Rodrigues
Sent: 14 February 2008 11:12
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: > 4GB memory on HP DL380

Yes, it supports.


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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Johan Booysen <johan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> grepping /proc/cpuinfo gives me:
>
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat
> pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr ...
>
> so it means the cpu does support pae??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marcos Aurelio
> Rodrigues
> Sent: 14 February 2008 10:47
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: > 4GB memory on HP DL380
>
> Yes, you need the kernel-pae.
>
> 32bit machines support only 4Gb, but if you have a processor with pae
> support
>
> # grep pae /proc/cpuinfo
>
> you will be able to run >4Gb with a kernel-pae
>
>
> #yum install kernel-PAE
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Johan Booysen
<johan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I need a rather quick answer to this, so will ask the question while
> > continuing googling:
> >
> > I've just upgraded the memory on an HP/Compaq DL380 G4 server
running
> > RHEL5, from 4GB to 6GB.  But Red Hat only sees 4GB.
> >
> > A quick google tells me that I either need to install the kernel-PAE
> > package, or the hugemem kernel.  Is that correct?  Yum shows me that
> > kernel-PAE is available, but not kernel-hugemem.
> >
> > This server runs Oracle and is quite important to the business, so I
> > can't just "have a go" and hope upgrading the kernel doesn't break
> > anything.
> >
> > Any advice on this will be appreciated very much.
> >
> > grub.conf:
> >
> > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5)
> >        root (hd0,0)
> >        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/root
> > rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M <mailto:crashkernel=128M@16M>
> >        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.img
> > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5)
> >        root (hd0,0)
> >        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root
rhgb
> > quiet crashkernel=128M@16M <mailto:crashkernel=128M@16M>
> >        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
> >
> > Thanks.
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