[vox-tech] Checking amount of memory

[Rod Roark]

To test, you can type something like "linux mem=512m" at the boot prompt.  
If that works, you can put 

  append="mem=512m"

in lilo.conf and rerun lilo.  Man lilo.conf for more info.

Cheers,

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Monday 11 February 2002 12:54, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Sorry,
>
> I'm running RH6.2.  I'm not sure how to pass a parm to the kernel, I'm
> going to look at the docs now
>
> Jay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark K. Kim" <markslist@cbreak.org>
> To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Checking amount of memory
>
> > It looks like you're missing some memory there...
> >
> > Older kernels needed to have the memory size passed to the kernel if
> > it was over some number (64MB, I think), which might be your case. 
> > What kernel do you use?  If you have an old kernel, at boot, try
> > passing the "mem=512M" parameter to the kernel.  Make sure you test
> > the whole memory after boot by loading some big apps and filling the
> > entire memory.
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > > [root@abba /root]# cat /proc/meminfo
> > >         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> > > Mem:  65638400 41410560 24227840 46088192  3399680 22671360
> > > Swap: 271392768        0 271392768
> > > MemTotal:     64100 kB
> > > MemFree:      23660 kB
> > > MemShared:    45008 kB
> > > Buffers:       3320 kB
> > > Cached:       22140 kB
> > > BigTotal:         0 kB
> > > BigFree:          0 kB
> > > SwapTotal:   265032 kB
> > > SwapFree:    265032 kB
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <p@dirac.org>
> > > To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:56 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Checking amount of memory
> > >
> > > > begin Jay Strauss <jjstrauss@yahoo.com>
> > > >
> > > > > I just installed a bunch of memory in my machine (512Mb).  How
> > > > > do I
> > >
> > > check if
> > >
> > > > > linux is "seeing" it all?
> > > >
> > > > cat /proc/meminfo