[Techtalk] 16GB RAM NOT Support

[jas at spamcop.net]

Quoting Mohammad Shakir <shakirz1 at hotmail.com>:

> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> I have Quad processor Intel based board with 16 GB RAM. I have installed Red
> Hat linux 9. I have 16GB Ram but my system shows only 4Gb. How I can solve
> this problem ?

Being 32 bit processors, x86 CPUs only support 4 Gb of RAM directly. Accessing
more memory than that requires a kernel with some extra "tricks" enabled;
kernel-bigmem-2.4.20-8.i686.rpm would appear to be the appropriate RedHat option.


James.