Re: Kernel upgrade on remote server -- DONE
On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 22:07, nate wrote:
> David De Graff said:
> > Wow.
> >
> > After remembering that both ReiserFS and DAC960 support are built into
> > the kernel now, I decided to take a chance and do this:
> >
> > apt-get -t testing install kernel-image-2.4.19-686
> >
> > After carefully following the package's config instructions (displayed
> > automatically), I rebooted and the box came back up with a new kernel -
> > and without a hitch!
> >
> > I'm sure this is old hat to Debian veterans, but I'm IMPRESSED.
> >
> > Now I just need to figure out why the OS still doesn't recognize the full
> > 1GB of RAM in the machine - I wonder if this kernel was compiled without
> > himem support.
>
> what does 'free' say? from one of my boxes with 1GB ram(2.2.19):
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 970932 935060 35872 261600 504092 146920
> -/+ buffers/cache: 284048 686884
> Swap: 2000052 0 2000052
>
> from dmesg:
> Memory: 970868k/983040k available (1544k kernel code, 428k reserved, 10136k
> data, 64k init)
As well, himem with Linux is not as much of an issue so long as you
aren't using a really old box (with a 16 MB memory problem) or going
over 64 GB iirc on current systems.
Remember when himem meant more than 640 KB?
Remember when himem meant more than 48 KB on old 6502-based systems?
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