Dave Lindsay wrote:
>
> Gee I just did that and noticed myself that Linux thinks I have 61 megs of ram
> but I have 64. Does anyone know how to change this?
Ensure that BIOS caching and shadowing is disabled in the bios. Also
that the "memory hole" at 15-16M is disabled in BIOS.
That may not change anything though. My 128M system reports 124M
total. Most likely it's just the broken PC architecture biting users in
the ass again.
> On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, you wrote:
> > Irsan,
> > I'm having a similar problem, except I have even more memory than you do.
> > When I run free -m I get the following results.
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 10 9 1 5 1 2
> > -/+ bufffers/cache: 4 5
> > Swap: 101 15 86
> >
> > As you can see, linux thinks I only have 10meg of memory!! I even added the
> > append='128MB' statement to the lilo.conf, but no difference. Run the
> > free -m command and see if you get similar results.
> >
> > kevin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Irsan S. P. Siregar
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 12:03 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just installing (and start using) Mandrake 5.3. However, I feel
> > that KDE access my HD a lot, and it's slow (compared to Windoze 95).
> > Is it normal, or is there a way to speed it up?
> >
> > My system is:
> > - Pentium 133
> > - 32 MB RAM
> > - Quantum Fireball 6.4 GB (Linux Native and Swap are here)
> > - Conner CFS850A (slave, not mounted in Linux)
> > I use the command
> > hdparm -t -T /dev/hda
> > to check for HD performance. I forgot the result, but it's quite
> > fast.
> >
> > BTW, is there a utility similar to MCLK (DOS utility to overclock
> > graphic card) for Linux? I run KDE with 1024 x 768 x 16bpp with
> > S3 ViRGE, and in its default clock speed, it's slow.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Irsan SPS
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> "A good traveller leaves no track." -- Lao Tzu
>
> "No computer will ever need more than 640kb of memory." -- Bill Gates
> (Moron...)
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