Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:45:04 -0500 | From | "Parag Warudkar" <> | Subject | Re: LowFree/LowMem problem |
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Matthias Wolle <Matthias.Wolle <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > Hi, > > my company is running several servers with kernel 2.6.23.12. This are Dual > Quad Core servers (CPU Intel) with 16GB RAM using a 32Bit kernel.
This is a common problem with running 32-bit kernels with more than 8Gb RAM. (Search the archives and you will find similar problem reports.)
Anyone in your situation has two options - Preferred one is to switch to a 64-bit kernel. In most cases you can just upgrade the kernel to 64-bits and use the same 32-bit userspace. It works fine.
If you cannot for some reason upgrade to a 64-bit kernel, the second option is to try and use RHEL/CentOS kernels which according to Alan Cox are better tuned for this kind of setup and you have a better chance that they will work.
HTH
Parag
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