On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Doug Boze wrote:
> Hi, folks.
>
> I've got an Abit BP6 motherboard with two Celeron 466MHz processors and
> 128MB of PC133 ECC RAM. At normal clock speed, Linux reports 128MB RAM,
> as expected. But when I started overclocking, Linux immediately
> reported 64MB!
>
> Currently running at 574MHz, nice and comfy, with Linux Mandrake 6.1,
> kernel 2.2.13-7mdksmp, compiled #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 16:38:50 CEST 1999.
Supprised it booted, what flavor video card?
> With version 6.0, I compiled (not entirely successfully) an SMP version
> of the standard kernel. I seem to recall something about enabling
> enhanced Real Time Clock support, due to the SMP. Right now I'm using
> the installed SMP kernel.
>
> Windoze reports 128MB at the same overclock, so I wonder if Linux is
> relying on the bus speed? Currently it's 82MHz, instead of the standard
> 66MHz.
Windoze and linuz use totaly different methods for determining the
available ram, simply append="mem=128M" in your lilo.conf
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Doug
>
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