Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
: Hi,
:
: My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a
: message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing,
: but when I run "free" under Debian it comes up with:
:
: # free
: total used free shared buffers cached
: Mem: 63384 61728 1656 25776 30420 16084
: -/+ buffers/cache: 15224 48160
: Swap: 64508 344 64164
:
:
: Why does it only think there is 64M?
Because you didn't tell it there's more. Try a "mem" line at the boot
prompt, or add one to your append line in /etc/lilo.conf (e.g.
`append="mem=96M"' in /etc/lilo.conf ...)
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