[RHEL 4] Boot warning: Server memory is not supported

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Upon server startup, the following warning is displayed:
    WARNING: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8) requires no more than
    16384 MB RAM to run as supported configuration (96668 MB detected)
    Normal startup will continue in 10 seconds
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.8, x86_64

  • 96 GB RAM

  • 64 logical processors
  • Kernel largesmp

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