Re: Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?

To: diesmann@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian Memory Limit at 64MB ?
From: jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:24:23 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 19970807092423.03960@wi.leidenuniv.nl>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 33E9753D.786FBBBF@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>; from Markus Diesmann on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 09:11:58AM +0200
References: <[🔎] 33E9753D.786FBBBF@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>

On Aug 7, Markus Diesmann wrote
> we have Debian installed on a PC with 256MB.  However it seems, that
> Debian uses only 64MB (according to top and free).  Is there a limit at
> 64MB? Do we need to set a special kernel option?

See /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz

For PCs, there appears to be no safe way to detect more than 64Mb of memory.
You have to specify "mem=256M" as a kernel option (e.g. through LILO's
"append" command).

HTH,
Ray
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