Hi,
On Mon, Feb 15, Stephen Anderson wrote:
> I have this same trouble. But I don't use LILO. Is there any way to
> get this information to the kernel if you are using loadlin to multiboot
> from Win95? Thanks!
Of course. The bootloader doesn't matter and loadlin passes all parameters
to the kernel the same way LILO does. Just append "mem=128M" (or
appropriate) to your linux.bat file (or whatever batch file you use to
start linux).
> Steve Anderson
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> On 15 Feb 99, at 20:32, Hubert Mantel wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 15, W.H. Dekker wrote:
> >
> > > I have 128 MB of internal memory. During bootup I have memory checking
> > > and I see all 128 MB being checked. Nevertheless, the free command
> > > says:
> > >
> > > /root>free
> > > total used free shared buffers cached
> > > Mem: 64208 62508 1700 33868 4256 42940
> > > -/+ buffers/cache: 15312 48896
> > > Swap: 0 0 0
> > > /root>
> > >
> > > - Is there something wrong in my setup?
> >
> > No. Unfortunately the BIOS reporting of the memory size is not really
> > standardized, so there are some machines where Linux only recognizes 64
> > MB. You need to tell Linux manually about the amount of memory. Just add
> > "mem=128M" to the append line of LILO.
> >
> > > - Is it normal to use so much memory (61 MB) while X is running with
> > > 2 xterms and 1 emacs?
> >
> > Yes, look at the numbers of free. Much memory is being used for disk
> > caching. Think of it this way: Linux has a very sophisticated
> > "smartdrive". Any unneeded memory is being used for buffers or disk
> > caching. So you will almost always have all memory used. Unused memory is
> > wasted memory!
> >
> > > - I copied the top of top's display below, sorted on memory usage,
> > > does it give any clues?
> >
> > Everything is perfectly fine. If you add the "mem=128M" you will see that
> > after some time all memory will be used again. This is normal and very
> > senseful.
> >
> > > Hartelijke groet, Wybo Dekker
> > -o)
> > Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\
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