Hi top & dmesg now shows the full 16Gb memory after we booted up from the PAE kernel, thanks top: Mem: 16634124k total, 16180672k used, 453452k free, 139676k buffers Swap: 8193108k total, 1222860k used, 6970248k free, 14811976k cached # dmesg | grep -i mem 16256MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range HighMem zone: 4161536 pages, LIFO batch:31 Memory: 16630616k/17563648k available (2077k kernel code, 144604k reserved, 860k data, 220k init, 15858988k highmem) ======================================= # dmidecode | grep -e Memory\ Device$ -A5 | more Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 2048 MB -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 2048 MB -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 1024 MB -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 1024 MB -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: No Module Installed -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: No Module Installed -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: No Module Installed -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: No Module Installed -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 2048 MB -- Memory Device Array Handle: 0x0171 Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 2048 MB On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 6:18 PM, sunhux G <sunhux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is your physical memory correctly showing up now? > > Thanks very much chaps, I'll only know in the next approved > downtime which is about 3-4 weeks away. Just curious, if > it's non-PAE, shouldn't it show as 4GB instead of 3GB? > > Anyway, I'll update this least after the downtime > > > Thanks > U > Hi, Yes ! there is no harm in commenting out the kernel without PAE. The change in the kernel will absolutely not have any impact on your oracle environment. I had done this many times on my oracle environment and nothing has gone wrong. Is your physical memory correctly showing up now? Cheers, Ram ======================================== Hi Chaps, rpm -qa | grep -i pae gave kernel-PAE-2.6.18-53.el5 & ls -d /boot/vm* gave vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.el5 vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.el5PAE & /etc/grub.conf has both the above. So can I say the best thing to do now is : comment out in grub.conf the non-Pae entry so that by default it boots up from the PAE kernel & nobody would accidentally boots up from the non-PAE Also, is there any impact to Oracle & web applications if I boot up from the PAE kernel? Any precautions? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list