On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, John W. Reese wrote:
> I run Guiness (RH 7.0) on a high-end workstation with 256 MB of RAM, but I
> still have performance problems (heavy swapping) if I have more than three
> applications open. I modified the lilo.conf file to reflect the high amount
> of available RAM. (NOTE: I boot Linux from a diskette, since I have 2 OSs on
> this machine and haven't taken the time to sort out the MBR yet.) The
> lilo.conf file now reads:
>
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda7
> initrd=/initrd.img
> append="mem=256M"
>
>
> I got the append line option from a HOWTO on one of the popular Linux sites.
>
> However, I am still experiencing heavy swapping and the 'free' command shows
> that I have a total of only 62 MB of RAM.
>
> How do I adjust memory management to reflect the actual amount of available
> RAM?
>
> John Reese
>
Did you remember to run lilo with the floppy in the drive after making
changes to lilo.conf? Forgetting this step is a common problem people
have when modifing lilo.conf.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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