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Title: SME 5.5 does not detect all 1GB of Ram
Post by: Dan Williams on June 25, 2003, 07:55:55 PM

Hello,
Our SME has been in service for a year, and working great.
This morning, the screen displayed:
kernel panic - Free List Corrupted.
I powered off the server, waited a minute powered back up.
It did the file system check, and eventually provided a log in and we are using it again.
I reviewed the logs, and have seen this before but thought now would be a good time to find an answer as to wether the following is common, or if anyonme else experiences same.

We have one (1) GB of ram in this unit (2 - 512MB Sticks)
kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 25 08:29:04 merlin kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0009f000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Jun 25 08:29:04 merlin kernel:  BIOS-e820: 3fef0000 @ 00100000 (usable)
Jun 25 08:29:04 merlin kernel: Warning only 896MB will be used.
Dan

Title: Re: SME 5.5 does not detect all 1GB of Ram
Post by: Boris on June 25, 2003, 09:37:38 PM

It was always the case with kernel 2.2.x based servers.
You will see full 1GB of RAM if you upgrade it to version 5.6 (Kernel 2.4 based)

Title: Re: SME 5.5 does not detect all 1GB of Ram
Post by: blinky on June 26, 2003, 03:50:38 AM

What is the RAM limit for E-Smith 5.6 / 6.0beta?

Title: Re: SME 5.5 does not detect all 1GB of Ram
Post by: Michael P. Soulier on July 02, 2003, 07:48:20 AM

blinky wrote:
>
> What is the RAM limit for E-Smith 5.6 / 6.0beta?

http://www.redhat.com/support/techsupport/production/GSS_caveat.html

Mike

Title: Re: SME 5.5 does not detect all 1GB of Ram
Post by: blinky on July 02, 2003, 05:14:00 PM

Thanks Michael, 16Gb is four times what I can run in my board, so I should be fine ;' ) lol.