The "free" command will show you how much is in use.  Expanded memory is
only used by Linux/390 if you use the xpram device driver to emulate a
paging volume.  That's a good use for it, certainly, which is why it was
written.  But that's _all_ it's going to be used for.  Essentially avoiding
doing real I/O for paging.


Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory recommendations


I am running SuSE Linux in an LPAR.  And according to the SuSE documentation
"installation using ssh (text mode) recommends 128+ MB of memory" be
assigned to the LPAR.  I have 128 MB of central memory assigned and another
128 MB of expanded memory assigned.

I have completed the installation.  What methods can I use to determine how
much central memory I am using?  I would like to, if possible, reduce the
amount allocated to this LPAR.  Is there a way to know how much expanded
memory is being used and can I force Linux to use expanded memory?

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