[vox-tech] Checking amount of memory
Jay Strauss
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:42:24 -0600
Ok, I'll try that, once i'm done installing
Thanks
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark K. Kim" <markslist@cbreak.org>
To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Checking amount of memory
> append option should be in the image section, like:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda9
> append="mem=512M"
>
> -Mark (my CEO tells me I should stop using the word "like" so much... as
if!)
>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jay Strauss wrote:
>
> > Odd,
> >
> > When I pass the parm in during boot it works, but when I edited my
lilo.conf
> > it doesn't:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > append="mem=512m"
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > linear
> > default=linux
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> > label=linux
> > read-only
> > root=/dev/hda9
> >
> >
> > Did I do something wrong?
> > Jay
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rod Roark" <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
> > To: <vox-tech@lists.lugod.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 3:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Checking amount of memory
> >
> >
> > > 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
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