[BlueOnyx:00228] Re: 4gb on Blueonyx

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc.]

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> From: "Rodrigo Ordonez Licona" <rodrigo at xnet.com.mx>
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>> Hi, We have our test server laoded with 4gb of ram
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>> Shows this on the top Command,
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>> Memory total is way under 4gb 3.2gb if my calculations are correct.
>> Not sure if its related to the memory whole issue present on the x86
>> architecture.
>> It there a bios setting that should be changed or a PAE switch on Centos 
>> 5
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>> The chipset is Intel iCH75 (kind of old) Dual Core CPU
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>> Mem:   3368508k total,   980308k used,  2388200k free,   372976k buffers
>> Swap:  4194296k total,        0k used,  4194296k free,   232872k cached
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>> Any light on the issue would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Rodrigo O
>> Xnet
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> Rodrigo
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> Check using
> uname -a
> and see if you are running an smp kernel. If you are not, then it will 
> only
> show 3 gigs.
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> E.g.
> Linux server   2.6.9-67.0.22.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 23 17:30:51 EDT 2008 
> i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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> Ken Marcus
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> Hey Ken. This is an issue that I had running BQ on a Dell 6650 with 4gig 
> of
> memory.
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> What is the easy? Way to get it fired up with the smp kernel?
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> Thanks...Doug



Doug on all my servers the smp kernel is there. SInce I use lilo then  all I 
had to do was edit the  /etc/lilo.conf to set the SMP kernal as the default.
Then
lilo -v -v

I don't know what the process would be with Grub.

So the beginning of the file looks somethign like:

   UW PICO(tm) 4.10                                       File: 
/etc/lilo.conf

prompt
timeout=20
default=2.6.9-78.0.8.E1
boot=/dev/md6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
serial = 0,38400n8
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp
        label=2.6.9-78.0.8.E1
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/md1
        append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8"
        vga=791





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Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
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http://www.precisionweb.net