[TriLUG] >4 GB HIMEM Question

[Mike Johnson]

James wrote:
> Mike,
> 
[snip]

Here's my memory stats:
$ free
              total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
Mem:      10045460   10038268       7192    1345328     180596   7708676
-/+ buffers/cache:    2148996    7896464
Swap:      2096472     482732    1613740

$ cat /proc/meminfo
         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  10286551040 10279882752  6668288 1377615872 185004032 8373792768
Swap: 2146787328 494317568 1652469760

> Trust me, it is only recognizing 4 GB.  Which makes sense because you have
> to recompile the kernel with high memory support in order to access > 4
> GB.

I believe you, I'm just confused.  We didn't do anything special on our 
system.  Are you using AS or ES?

$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Pensacola)

$ uname -r
2.4.9-e.49enterprise

Mike