Re: [Sheflug] Memory Problems

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

Have you tried entering mem=160M at the lilo: prompt? It goes after what
you usually type, i.e. 'linux mem=160M'.

If that's not it, you'll have to tell us what the BIOS reports on boot-up
and what combination of RAM you have (what type, etc.)

Cheers,

Alex.


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Foz wrote:

> Hi,
> 	During my easter vacation I decided it was time to bump up the 
> 32Mb of ram with a 128Mb, giving a total of 160Mb
> Unfortunantly Linux, does not seem to acknoledge that it is there:
> 
> foz [at] linux:/proc > free /t
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
> Mem:         63616      48656      14960      49860       2948     23056
> -/+ buffers/cache:      22652      40964
> Swap:        66492          0      66492
> Total:      130108      48656      81452
> 
> 
> foz [at] linux:/proc > cat meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached: 
> Mem:  65142784 56696832  8445952 54460416  3620864 
> 27090944 
> Swap: 68087808       0 68087808 
> MemTotal:     63616 kB 
> MemFree:       8248 kB 
> MemShared:    53184 kB 
> Buffers:       3536 kB 
> Cached:       26456 kB
> BigTotal:         0 kB 
> BigFree:          0 kB 
> SwapTotal:    66492 kB 
> SwapFree:     66492 kB
> 
> 
> Am I just reading the information incorrectly or is there a problem 
> here?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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