I think you are right nate. When I started with Linux a couple years ago, the 2.0 series was current (like 2.0.36 or something). It was then that I read in a how-to that even if you make a really big swap partition, only 128MB would be used.
Last night I tried to confirm this with my current 2.2.16 kernel but was able to use all 244MB available. -D On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:41:33AM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > did you install this on debian 2.1? or anything using the 2.0 kernel? > from what i remember this was a kernel 2.0 limitation. 124MB > reported by the system is normal. 124*1024=126,976kB , add > some more for the space the kernel takes up when it loads into > memory and any memory used by modules when the system loads > and you have 128MB. also bios settings such as shadow can > effect how much memory is available. > > nate
