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!
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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