Hi,
I find this strange becoz Mandrake 5.2(w 2.0.36) happily reports mine as 128
WITHOUT any fiddling(clean install). On the other hand RHL 5.1 gave the
exact same problem as below.
Lionel
> I ran Mandrake on a clean install. I have 128 meg of memory.
>
> Could it be that since I couldn't get LILO to boot my hard drive and am
> booting from a bootdisk that it's not respecting the append statement?
>
> kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Making KDE run faster
>
>
> Kevin Fife 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
>
> Whoah! This is bad. How much RAM do your really have, Kevin? This
> says that
> Linux itself only sees (and hence can use) 10 MB ONLY. You do NOT want to
> run
> KDE on that. (or any other wm for that matter...)
> I think your problem is different from Irsan's, though.
>
> Did you install Mandrake clean? Or did you upgrade from some
> other distro /
> version? Linux kernel version?
>
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