From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Description of problem: This page has gotten the 16GB and 64GB of RAM mixed up. Problem: kernel-hugemem states that it supports only up to 16GB while kernel/kernel-smp supports up to 64 GB. Solution: kernel-hugemem should state that it supports up to 64GB while kernel/kernel-smp supports up to 16 GB. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Just go to the page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html Expected Results: Solution: kernel-hugemem should state that it supports up to 64GB while kernel/kernel-smp supports up to 16 GB. Additional info: This causes confusion between customers and people in support.
Thank you for your report. We have updated the System Administration Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and revised the kernel package overview with the correct memory support. You can find the updated section in question at the following URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-kernel.html Thanks again for your report.