On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 07:06:32PM +0200, Christophe Broult wrote: > I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of > RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run > above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in the first 64 > Mb and using the upper 64 Mb as a swap area would be more efficient > because I would not experience as many performance penalties due to > cache problems and swapping in RAM should be a lot faster than > swapping on hard drive. Am I correct?
When I added memory beyond 64mb, I had to explicitly tell the kernel how much memory I have. Without this, Linux did not recognize the extra memory, and naturally it wasn't being used. append = "mem=96M" I have the above line in my /etc/lilo.conf, in the Linux stanza. This added the parameter "mem=96M" to the kernel at boot time, so Linux know exactly how much memory I have. Naturally, you'd need something to the effect of append = "mem=128M" Sorry if that's too obvious, but it could save you a lot of trouble if you've overlooked this. :) Good luck, Matt
