Linux won't recognize memory above 64 megs by itself. You need to add 'mem=128m' in your lilo.conf file. (or rather append = 'mem=128m'). Check out the lilo.conf man page for better details, I can't remember the exact syntax at the moment.
--Dano > -----Original Message----- > From: Ernie Pasveer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:01 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: The case of the missing 64 meg... > > I was hoping someone could help me. > > I have a system with 128 meg. of memory but I believe Linux only > sees half of it and the rest is wasted. > > Here's an output from 'top' > > 53 processes: 51 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 1 stopped > CPU states: 33.2% user, 11.8% system, 0.0% nice, 55.0% idle > Mem: 64236K av, 40180K used, 24056K free, 10932K shrd, 2548K buff > Swap: 130748K av, 28484K used, 102264K free > 14476K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME > COMMAND > 1262 erniep 14 0 744 744 572 R 0 23.7 1.1 > 0:01 top > 601 root 10 0 1932 1128 672 S 0 14.2 1.7 > 0:11 kvt > 350 root 4 0 9184 4216 568 S 0 7.1 6.5 > 1:51 XF86_Mach64 > 1 root 0 0 112 76 56 S 0 0.0 0.1 > 0:02 init > 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 > 0:00 kflushd > 3 root -12 -12 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 > 0:00 kswapd > > > Notice my Mem: av says 64236K available, 40180K used, 24056K free. I'm > missing 64 meg. > Am I wrong? What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance. > > --ernie :^) > > "------------------------------------------------------------" > " My work... ** " > " Seismic imaging software *II* ** " > " ** *IIII* *II* " > " My hobby... ** * * *** " > " Linux programming ** " > "------------------------------------------------------------" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
