On Thu Jun 22 2000 at 15:46, " " wrote:
> I'm running RH 6.1 ( OS - 2.2.12-20 ) on Compaq Proliant 2500,
> 200mhz, 64 MB RAM and 18.2 GB hard disk. It is connected to
> 100mbps speed. It is a web mail server.
>
> The problem is that when I used `free` command to check on
> it's memory, here's what I've got :
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 14460 14176 284 12276 820 3984
> -/+ buffers/cache: 9372 5088
> Swap: 136512 10272 126240
Hmm, not good. I assume that you've done things to check this, like
booting from a rescue disk and doing a "cat /proc/meminfo" (or
-gasp- from a dos bootdisk and doing a "mem").
Try at the lilo boot: prompt:
linux append="mem=64M"
and see if that makes any difference.
But this shouldn't be necessary! Not on a kernel more recently than
2.0.35 or so. And never for less than 64Mb ram. On some
motherboards with broken BIOSes, autodetection doesn't work for any
memory over 64Mb.
> And I've got the similar result when I used these commands too :
>
> 1. dmesg | egrep "Memory"
>
> 2. more /proc/meminfo
>
> Another problem is that it is too slow when we want to
> access the server's web sites though there were only 2 users
> accessed it .
>
> We've tried to change / add more RAM but it still gives
> the same amount of memory (around 14MB instead of 64MB).
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> AYeJay.
Did you check your BIOS settings? How much RAM does it say you
have?
It sounds to be like a hardware/bios fault, linux is behaving
correctly.
Cheers
Tony
