Red Hat AS 4 update 6 16GB mem not stable
Hey folks, I have a Red Hat AS 4 update 6 box with more than 16 gb of Ram that keeps rebooting at random times. I see this in the messages file:
3, Param2=5 Nov 14 20:21:18 bl-backup-01a SQLAnywhere(nb_bl-backup-01a): Starting checkpoint of "BMRDB" (BMRDB.db) at Wed Nov 14 2007 20:21 Nov 14 20:21:18 bl-backup-01a SQLAnywhere(nb_bl-backup-01a): Finished checkpoint of "BMRDB" (BMRDB.db) at Wed Nov 14 2007 20:21 Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a syslog: syslogd startup succeeded Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-6.build.r edhat.com) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 08:19:30 EDT 2007 Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: ******************************************************** Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: * This system has more than 16 Gigabyte of memory. * Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: * It is recommended that you read the release notes * Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: * that accompany your copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux * Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: * about the recommended kernel for such configurations * Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: ******************************************************** Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cfed70c0 (usable) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000cfed70c0 - 00000000cfee7cd4 (ACPI data) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000cfee7cd4 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a syslog: klogd startup succeeded Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffc00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000042ffff000 (usable) Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: 16255MB HIGHMEM available. Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: 896MB LOWMEM available. Is this a memory addressing problem by the installed kernel? How do I fix it? Is there something else I should be looking at as the culprit for the reboots? Any help appreciated, thanks in advance. Huff |
Hmmm..........
Nov 14 20:33:47 bl-backup-01a kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp I think that there is a kernel update (kernel-2.6.9-67) that came out around November 8, 2007 that fixed some memory issues. |
Could it be that the server wants the HUGEMEM kernel ?
from the RHEL 4 Release notes.. Quote:
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