Some time ago I submitted a question regarding workstation memory management.
There were a couple of exchanges on the subject (all of them clarifications),
but the crucial mailing -- where several of you responded at length, probably
regarding a resolution -- was too long for my e-mail client (Kmail) to
handle. I received only the header, not the body of the mailing.
I abjectly apologize in advance, beg your collective indulgence, and (sigh)
ask you to re-submit your fine advice to this list.
Here are the specifics:
1) I experience excessive swapping when several apps are open. My workstation
has 256 MB of RAM, but 'free' reveals that the OS sees only 64 MB of RAM in
the 'total' column every time. My swap partition is 128 MB. (This should be
larger for 256 MB of RAM, I know, but this shouldn't be an issue right now,
since the OS sees only 64 MB of of RAM.)
2) I boot RH 7.0 from diskette.
3) There is only one lilo.conf file on the computer, and it is on the boot
diskette. It is read fresh at every session, so the memory management line
should register if it is written correctly.
4) Here is how lilo.conf currently is written:
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
append = "mem=256M"
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
root=/dev/hda7
initrd=/initrd.img
5) The POST correctly reports the right amount of RAM at each boot-up.
6) M$ Win2k Pro has no trouble correctly reporting the true amount of RAM and
uses it quite efficiently (ouch).
How can I make the OS recognize the actual amount of RAM?
Begging again,
John Reese
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