If does not need it why can see no more than 64M
UNIX originally was designed to take advantege of RAM memory (HDs were
too expensive back then)
The more RAM the better the performance - there is something really
wrong with Linux if you can not use more than 64M
Wojtek Piecek wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:53:36PM +0200, Lasse Kristian Gustafsson wrote:
>
> > I heard that mandrake needs line: append="mem=128M"
> > in to /etc/lilo.conf if computer haves more than 64mb.
> > I have 128mb mem and i dont have that line in my conf
> > but still "top" shows that i have 128mb of mem + swap ?
>
> Mandrake (here: kernel) need that line, if you have old (or very old)
> motherboard, which can't correctly report memory size.
>
> New machines don't need this line.
>
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> --w
