Topic: SME 5.1.2 maximum RAM limit?

[Ari]

I've recently thrown a Compaq ProLiant ML350 G2 together with dual-P3/1.13 GHz processors and 2 GB of RAM.

Funny thing is, the bios sees all 2048 MB of RAM (4 x 512 MB DIMMS) but the SME server only sees 1 GB.

I've gone into the lilo.conf and added
append="mem=2048M"

and restarted LILO, but to no avail...

the system still only sees 1 GB of RAM.

Any suggestions? I need the 2 GB of RAM because the server is going to be handling 2500 users.


Thanks,
Ari

[Chris]

Three questions to this:
- is the kernel compiled for this much mem?
- is the Server-works chipset module with its features available to the kernel(does it have to?)
- what does it say if you only supply 1GB of RAM?
I've installed once RH 6.2 on this server, and it worked fine...
I'd say its either the memory support in the kernel or the chipset, because of its interleaving feature.

Chris

[Ari]

Chris wrote:
>
> Three questions to this:
> - is the kernel compiled for this much mem?

The kernel is the standard SME 5.1.2 w/ ServiceLink Kernel, unmodified.

> - is the Server-works chipset module with its features
> available to the kernel(does it have to?)

The kernel does grab up a whole bunch of RAM...
But I can't see how it would be the chipset when the BIOS shows the full 2 GB as recognized.