Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB,
> 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a
> memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but:
>
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 63905792 60915712 2990080 30769152 1605632 22482944
> Swap: 254971904 2125824 252846080
> MemTotal: 62408 kB
> MemFree: 2920 kB
> MemShared: 30048 kB
> Buffers: 1568 kB
> Cached: 21956 kB
> SwapTotal: 248996 kB
> SwapFree: 246920 kB
>
> It says I only have (just less than) 64 Meg! Any ideas why?
Try passing a mem=224M to kenel... look in
/linux-dir/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt or something
like that. It should tell you in more detil.
- Adam
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