I believe you need to give your kernel the boot option: 'mem=256M'
Richard
"Gregory S. Hackman" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Mandrake 6.0 on a Gateway PIII PC with 256 Mb ram.
> When I check the memory in use with the "top" command, it says I only have
> something like 64 Mb. The appropriate KDE utility tells me the same thing.
>
> Is there some bug in the 2.2whatever kernel that it can't use the other 192
> Mb? Is there some initialization file I need to change? I intend to use
> this PC as a serious number-crunching workstation so I'd really like to use
> all the ram I paid for.
>
> Thanks...Greg Hackman
