read this
http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/tips/#mem_usage
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:48:07 -0600 (CST)
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 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
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