After hot-adding memory to RHEL 5 VMware guest, the memory does not increase
Issue
- After hot-adding memory to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtual machine, the VMware host shows the change but the guest does not show the increase.
- The following command shows memory is all onlined
# grep line /sys/devices/system/memory/*/state
- Example:
# grep line /sys/devices/system/memory/*/state
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/state:online
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory10/state:online
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory11/state:online
- - - - - - - - 8< - - - - - - - -
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory98/state:online
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory99/state:online
/sys/devices/system/memory/memory9/state:online
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- VMware
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