Re: [Slightly OT] Memory reporting

[Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>]

Thanks to everyone who suggested mem=224M as a kernel parameter - after
botching a grub install on not one but *two* machines consecutively,
this works fine.

Tom

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?
> 
> Tom
> 
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