On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:24:23PM -0700, Jim Angstadt wrote:
> Another newbie question:
>
> The hardware memory check during boot reports
> 320MB of memory, which is correct. There are
> physical 256MB and 64MB memory modules. But,
> 'free' and 'top' report much less. Free, with
> the 'm' option reports 62MB available.
> Top reports about 64MB available.
>
> The documentation 'man top' states:
> 'Statistics on memory usage, including total
> available memory, ...'.
>
> Which seem to indicate that top is reporting
> total physical memory.
>
> My usual questions:
>
> 1. What's going on here?
>
> 2. Do I have a problem and how do I fix it.
>
> 3. Any pointers to online resources would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Please see below for output from free and top.
> I'm sorry that line wrapping may make it
> difficult to read.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Jim
Do you have "mem=320M" in your /etc/lilo.conf?
Micah
