RE: The case of the missing 64 meg...
Linux won't recognize memory above 64 megs by itself. You need to add
'mem=128m' in your lilo.conf file. (or rather append = 'mem=128m'). Check
out the lilo.conf man page for better details, I can't remember the exact
syntax at the moment.
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ernie Pasveer [SMTP:epasveer@home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:01 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: The case of the missing 64 meg...
>
> I was hoping someone could help me.
>
> I have a system with 128 meg. of memory but I believe Linux only
> sees half of it and the rest is wasted.
>
> Here's an output from 'top'
>
> 53 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped
> CPU states: 33.2% user, 11.8% system, 0.0% nice, 55.0% idle
> Mem: 64236K av, 40180K used, 24056K free, 10932K shrd, 2548K buff
> Swap: 130748K av, 28484K used, 102264K free
> 14476K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME
> COMMAND
> 1262 erniep 14 0 744 744 572 R 0 23.7 1.1
> 0:01 top
> 601 root 10 0 1932 1128 672 S 0 14.2 1.7
> 0:11 kvt
> 350 root 4 0 9184 4216 568 S 0 7.1 6.5
> 1:51 XF86_Mach64
> 1 root 0 0 112 76 56 S 0 0.0 0.1
> 0:02 init
> 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0
> 0:00 kflushd
> 3 root -12 -12 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0
> 0:00 kswapd
>
>
> Notice my Mem: av says 64236K available, 40180K used, 24056K free. I'm
> missing 64 meg.
> Am I wrong? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --ernie :^)
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