One off the top of my head: have you included a mem=xxxM boot option? Two
machines booted RH7.0 with 128Mb installed (and detected by the BIOS), but
the kernel ignored this and assumed 64Mb. Easy to check and fix, but
something like it might be the problem.
Failing that, what _is_ the output from free and top?
HTH
Paul.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Brian Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that on the machines I've set up with RH7.0 a huge
> chunk of the memory is blown (like 100Mb as reported by free or top)
> before I start doing anything - even before I start X. Is this 'cos the
> stock kernel has too much extra compiled in or should I be looking
> elsewhere? No processes reported by ps seems to be all that huge - are
> there any prettier tools I can use analyse memory usage (� la IRIX
> gmemusage)? Any pointers appreciated.
>
> Brian
>
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