Under the 'x86' architecture (32 bit), the system can only address 4 GB of
allocated memory.
Traditionally yes, but not always:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAE
But it does look like 4GB minus about 680M. The machine is probably
not capable of PAE or the kernel being used is not built for
Vince Hoang wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:41:45PM -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
When will Vince the Great add SuSE 9.3 iso's to our local
mirror? :-) Wayne
Great curmudgeon, maybe.
9.3 is being synced now. If you need it sooner
or the LiveDVD version see the USC mirror:
Tim Newsham wrote:
But it does look like 4GB minus about 680M. The machine is probably
not capable of PAE or the kernel being used is not built for PAE
support.
Does the CentOS have /proc/config.gz or /boot/config-`uname -r` ? If
so, grep for MEM in there. If HIGHMEM4G is already set,
Eric Hattemer wrote:
If HIGHMEM4G is already set, you could try setting HIGHMEM64G instead.
Oops, if this isn't clear, I mean grab a new kernel source, and
configure it with this option, then install the new kernel. Editing a
/boot/config-* or /proc/config.gz doesn't do anything.