[nikal] More than 4GB of addressable memory detected

[ltgguy]

Hi,

Trying to install on OpenSuSE 11.0...the machine only has 2G of ram.

NIKAL fails to load and dmesg gives:

             [nikal] More than 4GB of addressable memory detected.

Very confused about this, where would it think it sees 4G of ram?

System report is attached.

Thanks

Tommy Turner

[Jonathan_S1]

What versions of NI-VISA, NI-KAL, and NI-DAQmx Base are you trying to/ have installed?

Jon S

[ltgguy]

I have tried this NI-DAQmx 8.0.2 - SUSE, RedHat

and the 8.01version of the same thing.

I'm not aware of the visa requirement.

I have the 8.01 version running on different hardware just fine, but I can't get that server anymore so we are transitioning to a new model and have been failing.

Thanks for the help.

[Jonathan_S1]

Hi,

From the readme, 8.0.2 doesn't support OpenSUSE 11.0.  Are you saying you had 8.0.1 installed on a different machine, but are unable to install it on a new machine?

Jon S

[ltgguy]

We have 8.0.1 running on a different machine.

We have tried to install 8.0.1 on the new machine with Suse 11.0 and failed.

My forum reading lead me trying the 8.0.2 with suse 11.0 and it failed as well.

I would happily use 8.0.1 if we could get it working.

thanks

[Jonathan_S1]

Hi,

Have you confirmed that your OpenSUSE is reporting the correct amount of memory on it's own?

Jon

[ltgguy]

Yes,

free and top commands are reporting 2g available.

I've even reduced swap to 1g in case something was adding things together.

[John_P1]

Hi Tommy,

Your system report shows that you have kernel-mapped RAM above the 4 GB limit (see /proc/iomem).  I'd suggest simply switching to the non-PAE kernel, which will prevent the OS from allocating memory above 4 GB.  Another user has reported this problem here (see Jeff2's response).

Best Regards,