>>>>> "edt" == Eugene Dale Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
edt> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
edt> Mem: 65581056 17104896 48476160 20381696 2461696 8929280
edt> Swap: 0 0 0
edt> MemTotal: 64044 kB
edt> MemFree: 47340 kB
edt> MemShared: 19904 kB
edt> Buffers: 2404 kB
edt> Cached: 8720 kB
edt> SwapTotal: 0 kB
edt> SwapFree: 0 kB
edt> Since MemTotal was less than the installed memory, we changed the BIOS
edt> setting 'OS Select for memory > 64MB' to 'OS/2' to see what effect that
edt> might have. Here is the result:
Change this back and then:
Try adding to /etc/lilo.conf at the top, in the global section:
append="mem=128M"
Then re-run 'lilo -v'
edt> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
edt> Mem: 15024128 14561280 462848 20291584 2146304 6762496
edt> Swap: 0 0 0
edt> MemTotal: 14672 kB
edt> MemFree: 452 kB
edt> MemShared: 19816 kB
edt> Buffers: 2096 kB
edt> Cached: 6604 kB
edt> SwapTotal: 0 kB
edt> SwapFree: 0 kB
edt> Things went from bad to worse. So, we put it back and decided to ask the list
edt> for help.
edt> We also would like to know what disadvantages there are, if any to using
edt> filesystem based swap instead of a dedicated partition. This machine is
edt> likely to be used for some development but not for any heavy-duty server
edt> work. It was thought that file system swap, in combination with 128MB of
edt> RAM would be sufficient.
I assume by file system swap, you are referring to using a swap file,
rather than a file. Well it will still work, however when you use swap
you will find things slow down considerably. Using a partition is very
much encouraged, however since you already have 128 megs of ram, the
swap partition could be limited to something like 64Megs unless you
are doing some really intensive work that will need a lot of memory,
which it sounds like is not your use for this machine.
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