Hi,
My bad on that last - that should have read:
put:
append="mem=128M"
at the bottom of /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo as root.
Sorry!
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Eugene Dale Tyler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have recently installed RH5.0 from the Power Tools set on a system.
> The system also runs OS/2 and NT (rarely).
>
> This machine uses a FIC-2007 motherboard, a Cyrix 686MX233, and has 128MB
> of ECC SDRAM.
>
> Under RH, we see the following from cat /proc/meminfo:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 65581056 17104896 48476160 20381696 2461696 8929280
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 64044 kB
> MemFree: 47340 kB
> MemShared: 19904 kB
> Buffers: 2404 kB
> Cached: 8720 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
>
> Since MemTotal was less than the installed memory, we changed the BIOS
> setting 'OS Select for memory > 64MB' to 'OS/2' to see what effect that
> might have. Here is the result:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 15024128 14561280 462848 20291584 2146304 6762496
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 14672 kB
> MemFree: 452 kB
> MemShared: 19816 kB
> Buffers: 2096 kB
> Cached: 6604 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
>
> Things went from bad to worse. So, we put it back and decided to ask the list
> for help.
>
> We also would like to know what disadvantages there are, if any to using
> filesystem based swap instead of a dedicated partition. This machine is
> likely to be used for some development but not for any heavy-duty server
> work. It was thought that file system swap, in combination with 128MB of
> RAM would be sufficient.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
>
>
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>
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>
> Eugene Dale Tyler
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