On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:35:53AM +1200, Angus McMorland wrote: > Woops - sent this off-list by accident - it's rather late/early here > and I should be asleep. Sorry, Tzafrir for the double sending. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Angus McMorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 16 Sep 2007 01:30 > Subject: Re: RAM usage > To: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 15/09/2007, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:55:02AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:18:09 +1200 > > > "Angus McMorland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > total used free shared buffers > > > > cached > > > > Mem: 906588 287164 619424 0 41908 > > > > 173652 > > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 71604 834984 > > > > Swap: 0 0 0 > > > > > > Perhaps you have custom compiled a kernel and have not set > > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y? > > > > On the default Etch kernel it isn't. > > > > $ grep CONFIG_HIGHMEM /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-486/.config > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > > Indeed - I now suspect this is the problem - the config file in my > live chroot also shows: > > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > > On my laptop (i.e. not from a live CD), running linux-image-2.6-686, > these settings look different: > > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set > CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET=0xC0000000 > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > > So, I'm currently trying to build a 686-based live CD to check if that > is the difference. Interestingly starting with "lh_config -a i686"... > doesn't force the install of the 686 image, and rather the 486 > packages: I think you want to specify --linux-flavours 686
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