preupg reports a wrong memory size for a system with a large memory in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Issue

  • I used preupg command to prepare the upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
  • preupg reports a wrong memory size 512MB for a system with 512GB memory, and it failed with a EXTREME INPLACE upgrade risk.
  Minimum required memory is 1024MB. But you have only 512!
...
  INPLACERISK: EXTREME: Memory is lower than minimum requirements!

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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