On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Razvan Sandu wrote about, Re: Redhat 6.1 memory bleed:
> I don't remember the answer right now, but I certainly saw this thing in
> printed FAQ's at RedHat 5.2 or 5.1.
It was; use the append command in lilo, but that was for 2.0.xx kernels.
They say there should be no need to use it in 2.2.xx kernsl as that kernel
seires should recocnise memory above 64M.
Starange as it may seem some systems still need to define the memory via
append, why,? dont ask me.
> Regards,
> Razvan
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> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > 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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