On Monday 12 November 2007 22:36, David C. Rankin wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Monday 12 November 2007 10:33, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> Mates, > >> > >> This was probably answered before, but I couldn't find it on a > >> quick search. I have a dell optiplex GX280 and I just installed 4G > >> of ram. The Bios sees all 4G just fine, but when I look at the > >> memory with free it only shows 3G seen. Like: > > > > Is the BIOS configured to allow remapping of I/O addresses outside > > the 3-4 GB range in which the usually reside? > > > > What kernel are you running? It has to be a "bigsmp" kernel to have > > the PAE code included. > > > > Randall Schulz > > Ah, no I simply have the smp kernel installed. So you are saying > big-smp will help this old 10.0 box? I will eventually dump 10.0 for > 10.3, but this is a production backup server that will take quite a > bit of configuration after the jump. I'll see if I can find a bigsmp > kernel for it and give it a try!
Just go into the YaST Package Management, select the -bigsmp kernel with the description "Kernel with multiprocessor support and PAE" (and let it add all the necessary dependent packages) and install. Then immediately do an Online Update. It should be no-muss, no-fuss. There should be a couple of new entries in your boot menu, but the default should have been switched to the -bigsmp kernel. (I don't think it discards the old -smp kernel, but I'm not 100% sure about that.) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> uname -r > 2.6.13-15.18-smp > > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
