Tim Frink wrote: > I want to test how a program would run with a reduced physical > memory. The machine has currently 4 GB RAM running Debian. I'd > like to evaluate the performance of the system with 2 GB physical > RAM. Of course, I could remove on of the RAM modules. But, is > there also a way to disable the physical memory by software?
At boot time specify the "mem=VALUE" parameter to the linux kernel. This is easily done with grub at the grub boot screen by adding the parameter to the end of the existing boot options. /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro mem=2G Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
