This is an old Linux problem that I've started to see coming up again, after
a long absence. In the old days, kernels didn't autodetect memory above 64
megs. That was fixed, around kernel 2.0.30, and the problem has been largely
forgotten. I was surprised to encounter it once again on a system recently,
and I've seen a few reports of it starting to turn up again on this and
other lists.
All that is just to pre-empt the reply "this is no longer a problem" in
response to the advice that follows. Add to /etc/lilo.conf the line
append="mem=120M"
and re-run lilo. That should fix it.
At 02:48 AM 3/17/00 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
>Hi
>
>recently I had to reinstall linux because I screwed up on my partition
>info from Windoze. I ran free today and this is what I get:
>
>-----------------------
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 64148 52556 11592 40352 196 28008
>-/+ buffers/cache: 24352 39796
>Swap: 130748 24196 106552
>-----------------------
>
>Does'nt this mean that linux thinks that I have 64mb of memory? I have 128m
>with 8m shared out to the video card. How can I fix this?
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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