Here's my little secret--
If you go to /proc you will find files that tell you all about the system.
Just cat or less or more (less is more, thank you Seth) and you can see
all sorts of interesting things. I particularly like pci scsi/ and
interrupts.
Michael J Smith
Flyfisher, Russian Translator, and Professional Linux-Geek-at-Large
2250 Patterson #25
Eugene, OR 97405
(541) 346-7562
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Bob Crandell wrote:
> You didn't say you rebooted after you ran lilo. Try that.
>
> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/26/2000 6:52:38 PM >>>
>
> Actually, I *think* I have the same problem. Is there a better
> way to find out whether or not linux is seeing the memory other
> than running top? I've got 256 megs but top shows
> Mem: 64040K av
> in the upper left corner. *Something* is amiss since it gets really
> sluggish running netscape.
>
> I tried putting
> append="ram=256M"
> and also tried
> append="mem=256M"
> (from another recommendation)
> in my lilo.conf in the "image" section, just before read-only.
>
> After typing "lilo" as root just afterward, I hit 'top' again
> and it still only shows 64 MB. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Curt
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:17:01PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote:
> > At 11:11 PM 04/20/2000 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Hi
> >
> >
> > HI. You're in DENMARK? Ok.... a little far from Eugene
> >
> > Somehow I don't think you're a regular at the meetings.
> >
> >
> > >I have a strange problem with my redhat 6.2 linux server.
> > >It have 256 Mb ram installed but linux only sees 64 Mb, if i run "top".
> >
> > try adding: append="ram=256M"
> > to your lilo.conf and run lilo. should work.
> >
> > Seth
> >
> >
>
