On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:02:10PM -0500, CC Chaman wrote: > Hi, > > First post, so please forgive if this is in the wrong board. > > I've installed Zod on a Dell 2950 with 8 GB Ram. The 2.6.18 kernel only > reports 4GB, so I decided to do an "yum upgrade" ... excpet now with the > 2.6.19 kernel I only have 3.2 GB > > Here's the top output: > Mem: 3368804k total, 743888k used, 2624916k free, 43428k buffers > Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 429312k cached > > > Here's the fun part...when I boot with Xen - Ram is reported correctly? > > Any help would be appreciated! > > ( I did try setting kernel parameter mem=8192M ... does not work) The standard kernel can only see up to 4GB. You need to install kernel-PAE to see more. The reason the Xen kernel worked is that it also enabled PAE. (Physical Address Extensions). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
