On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Redhat 6.1 memory bleed:
> Hello, all. I'm new to this list, and have been reading it and the
> archives for a few days, and have not seen a solution to my problem.
> OK, my problem is that I have a Pentium III 550 on a VIA Apollo Pro+
> chipset, and Linux only detects 64 out of 128mb of ram. At the LILO prompt
> I set Linux mem=128M, and Linux then sees it. The problem is, after this,
> the memory seems to be slowly leaking away, and after a few days, the PC
> stops running and I have to reboot it. Now, I let it run with just 64mb of
> ram, and it seemed to like that, but push it beyond it, and it starts
> leaking memory. Has anyone heard about anything like this? Are there any
> solutions? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
> -Ken Jones
>
As to why the problem arises i dont know, but what you are doing has no
effect.
edit /etc/lilo.conf add the folloing to the global section;
append = "mem=128M"
rerun lilo
reboot.
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Regards Richard
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