On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, warren11 wrote:
I know, I am answering my original post, but it iw fixed !
It was simple. My bios had a setting for 'memory hole above 15M -16M
enabled' Just disabled that now it is back to 32 meg total;
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30680 29936 744 31272 664 10436
-/+ buffers/cache: 18836 11844
Swap: 49132 3324 45808
Thanks in advance for anyone with same advice.
Warren
>
> I know this has been discussed but I still am wondering why my system w/32
> meg has a smaller free report than may old 486 w/20 meg.
> Here is what my 32meg system's free reports;
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 13444 13092 352 6296 304 4664
> -/+ buffers/cache: 8124 5320
> Swap: 49132 13280 35852
>
> My old 486's free says;
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 18620 17836 784 8356 1628 9352
> -/+ buffers/cache: 6856 11764
> Swap: 14104 1584 12520
>
> To check my memory I ran the memtest program that is on tomsrootboot and
> it passed on the 32meg system (6+passes) with following info;
>
> Memtest-86 V1.3
>
> 18k - 640k Max Mem
> 1024k - 15360k 4194303k
> 16384k- 32768k
>
> My old box memtest says;
>
> 18k - 640k
> 1024k - 20736k
>
> When I boot up the 32meg system the bios boot up runs up to 32k without
> probs.
>
> Now for my big question, where is my memory dissapearing on my 32meg
> system. It looks like my old 20meg has more memory than the newer one.
> Both running RedHat V6.1.
>
> Warren
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