[TriLUG] Opteron >4GB w/RHEL 3

John Broome john at jbroome.dyndns.org
Mon Feb 16 09:54:08 EST 2004


Mark T. Voelker wrote:
> I'm working on setting up some new lab hardware, among which is a shiny
> new dual Opteron server running RHEL 3.  The box has two Opteron 244
> CPU's and 6GB of DDR ECC RAM installed in six 1GB sticks (there are 8
> total DIMM slots). 

Now you're just showing off. :)



> Anyone know what might be happening here?  I'm not sure whether to
> complain to the vendor that something is fishy with their hardware or
> whether this is a software issue.

IANARHE, so this is a guess.  Is the BIGMEM kernel still around and is 
6GB of ram large enough to need the big mem kernel if it is indeed still 
around.



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