I agree with all of you flame or not.
I really need an answer not a status of other systems.
Given the fact that Red Hat/Mandrake is keeping a long silence about
this make me believe that there is a problem somewhere. Why is showing
only on certain systems - THAT'S the mystery!!
Civileme wrote:
>
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > Well, Jean-Louis,
> > > It happend that the box has a brand new ASUS board (BIOS 11/99)
> > > If I will set the BIOS for OS/2 I am getting only 14M. Go figure!!
> > > Again I think that thre is something wrong with the code itself - there
> > > are too many people complainig about the same thing - LINUX IS NOT ABLLE
> > > TO RECOGNIZE MORE THAN 64M
> > > It looks like the intruction code is made to recognize only a 16Bit
> > > integer.
> > >
> > Wrong. I've got 192 megs of ram here and I didn't do ANYTHING to
> > make it see all that RAM. One thing I recall reading is that
> > overclocking will cause Linux to see less than maximum RAM. If you're
> > overclocking, try setting it back to the "real" clock speed and see
> > what it reports.
> > Here's the output of my "free" command:
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 192848 181820 11028 55492 22740 79616
> > -/+ buffers/cache: 79464 113384
> > Swap: 102744 5708 97036
> >
> > Keep in mind that I'm running two instances of RC5DES and an instance
> > of SETI@HOME on this machine at all times...
> > John
>
> Hmmmm. I think the conclusion about a halfword for memory size might be
> premature.
>
> Set the BIOS for OS/2 and you have made a HOLE in the memory picture and all
> the BIOS will report is 15M--the memory hole is 15M to 16M. Why are you
> getting 14? Most likely your video BIOS shadowing is enabled, effectively
> eliminating the first M from the picture.
>
> I have 17 machines with either 128M(15) or 256M(2) and I never used the
> append "mem=xyzM" on any of then. One is running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3, 15
> are running LM 6.1 (Helios) and one is running LM 6.0 (Venus) UPtimes as
> long as 96 days (on the server) exist now, and some of the others have been
> on since I implemented Helios on them, 12-63 days.
>
> Now at home I have a couple of those cheapie boards that have the AGP and the
> sound built-in and each of them uses 8M of main for the video mem. Linux
> reports 120M/119M on them, which is correct. Again, no special settings.
>
> Here is the output of free
> total used free
> shared buffers cached
> Mem: 119840 63836 56004
> 45456 2900 33768
> -/+ buffers/cache 27168 92672
> Swap: 168672 0 168672
>
> So look at the BIOS and erase the memory hole at 15M and change the setting
> for OS/2 for >64M and Linux will see your memory too.
>
> Civileme
>
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