Hello,
We have recently installed RH5.0 from the Power Tools set on a system.
The system also runs OS/2 and NT (rarely).
This machine uses a FIC-2007 motherboard, a Cyrix 686MX233, and has 128MB
of ECC SDRAM.
Under RH, we see the following from cat /proc/meminfo:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 65581056 17104896 48476160 20381696 2461696 8929280
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 64044 kB
MemFree: 47340 kB
MemShared: 19904 kB
Buffers: 2404 kB
Cached: 8720 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Since MemTotal was less than the installed memory, we changed the BIOS
setting 'OS Select for memory > 64MB' to 'OS/2' to see what effect that
might have. Here is the result:
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 15024128 14561280 462848 20291584 2146304 6762496
Swap: 0 0 0
MemTotal: 14672 kB
MemFree: 452 kB
MemShared: 19816 kB
Buffers: 2096 kB
Cached: 6604 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Things went from bad to worse. So, we put it back and decided to ask the list
for help.
We also would like to know what disadvantages there are, if any to using
filesystem based swap instead of a dedicated partition. This machine is
likely to be used for some development but not for any heavy-duty server
work. It was thought that file system swap, in combination with 128MB of
RAM would be sufficient.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Eugene Dale Tyler
Tyler Enterprises - O/S Consulting
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