On Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:08 PM, Chuck Shirley wrote:
> Hmm... did you try booting with mem=nopentium directive to the kernel?
> I hear that the AMD cpus sometimes behave badly with the Intel Pentium
> paging scheme, but works well with the old 386 scheme.
>
Yes, actually (and in previous posted environment description) I use in
lilo.conf the line:
append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi mem=nopentium"
> I have this memory condition:
>
> [chas@visigoth chas]$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 1033648 1020264 13384 0 120308 668512
> -/+ buffers/cache: 231444 802204
> Swap: 401584 9724 391860
>
> but never any crashing like you are experiencing. (Somtimes for other
> reasons, but it's cooker, so I don't complain much... ;^) )
>
> -Chuck
In normal state, before any crash, my memory situation is:
[root@kiko root]# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 513296 403428 109868 0 35856 301012
Swap: 1076344 0 1076344
with runnig: Apache-1.3.26-5mdk , Jakarta-4.0.3(j2se-1.4.0_01),
Postgresql-7.2.1-5mdk, kde-3.0.2-16mdk, and more....
Luca
