Michael Lueck wrote:
>
> I've just had time to setup a "serious" Linux learning box finally. When in KDE
> / Xwindows using a single application - WordPerfect 8, Netscape 4.6... the hard
> drive is just thrashing away - as bad as NT on 32MB. Strange thing, I have
> 128MB and a PIII 450 CPU.
>
> Is there some trick I missed somewhere which I need to do to use all 128MB?
>
> I installed w/ a 32MB /boot partition, 2GB / partition and a 40MB swap
> partition which I was hoping to never use since Linux code seems quite
> unbloated.
It sounds like Linux didn't recognize all of your memory. I can verify
that a Linux box with 128M won't swap like that with such a light load.
To check what Linux detected, use the command 'free'. The output will
look like:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127980 124964 3016 44460 15884
53136
-/+ buffers/cache: 55944 72036
Swap: 130404 2792
127612
The line you're interested in is the top left numeric cell. If that
doesn't show roughly the same number, you've got a problem to fix.
To get Linux to recognize all of your memory, insert a line reading:
append="mem=128M"
into /etc/lilo.conf. The "linux" section will then look something like
this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdksmp
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
append="mem=128M"
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After editing /etc/lilo.conf, you'll need to rerun lilo to install the
new boot information. This will run it:
/sbin/lilo
Reboot the machine and all should be well!
Let me know if that's not the problem.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
