On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:51:58AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, > 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a > memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 63905792 60915712 2990080 30769152 1605632 22482944 > Swap: 254971904 2125824 252846080 > MemTotal: 62408 kB > MemFree: 2920 kB > MemShared: 30048 kB > Buffers: 1568 kB > Cached: 21956 kB > SwapTotal: 248996 kB > SwapFree: 246920 kB > > It says I only have (just less than) 64 Meg! Any ideas why?
Try passing a mem=224M to kenel... look in /linux-dir/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt or something like that. It should tell you in more detil. - Adam
