how can i tell if my system is recognizing all of my memory? i have 64MB
of ram and a 70MB swap partition, but linux is a lot harder on my drive
than is win95.



On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Maurice Hendrix wrote:

> Edit the file /etc/lilo.conf with your favorite editor
> add this line near the top of the file
> append="mem=128MB"
> 
> then run the command
> /sbin/lilo
> 
> and reboot
> 
> > ----------
> > From:       [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent:       29 July 1999 04:58
> > To:         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:    Not accessing all my memory
> > 
> > I have the Linux-Mandrake 6.0 (Red Hat Linux 6.0 with enhancements)
> > install 
> > along with Windows 98.
> > 
> > I have 128Mb of ram and a 128 Mb swap file. But the system says that I
> > have 
> > 13.9Mb of ram and 131 Mb of Swap file. 
> > 
> > The Hard disk is continously thrashing away as I bring up programs etc.
> > And 
> > the OS is pretty slow. I believe that Linux is only using 13Mb or my
> > system 
> > RAM, How do I get it to recognise the rest of my ram?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > Ed Santiago
> > 
> 

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