kernel: memory related messages appear in /var/log/messages at boot time
Issue
- There were warning messages related to kernel in /var/log/messages logs during the system started up.
- What does the message mean? It it harmful?
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: Zone ranges:
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: DMA [mem 0x00001000-0x00ffffff]
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: DMA32 [mem 0x01000000-0xffffffff]
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: Normal empty
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: Movable zone start for each node
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: Early memory node ranges
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x00001000-0x0009afff]
May 23 12:02:57 rhel7 kernel: node 0: [mem 0x00100000-0x3fffbfff]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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