Default Debian Reader wrote:
>
> I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M
> of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports...
> CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle
> Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd, 17160K buff
> Swap: 130748K av, 1416K used, 129332K free 24180K cached
>
> it seems it is only using 64M or my physical memory? Anyone know the
> problem?
IIRC, this is a BIOS problem; it can only report a maximum of 64 MB of
memory. To get your kernel to recognize all your memory you need to
put:
append="mem=128M"
in your /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo, and reboot. Note that your system
can get seriously fscked if you don't actually have 128M. Read lilo(8)
and lilo.conf(5) before trying anything. There's also some stuff in
/usr/doc/lilo/*. The BootPrompt-HOWTO also has a few things to say on
this.
Noel
