Use the kernel-enterprise package instead of the standard kernel. As its name
suggests, it is designed with more powerful systems -- such as yours -- in
mind.
On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear support,
>
> I have installed in my computer (Pentium III – 933 MHz – 1Gb of RAM memory)
> the Mandrake 8.0, and I mainly interested to use the compilers C and
> Fortran, but as I am a Linux beginner, I have faced the following problems:
>
> 1) The Fortran compiler can “see” until 512MB of RAM memory but in my
> applications I need to use all the RAM memory available in my computer.
> When I install the computer code (Monte Carlo MCNP) I have to install it
> informing all the RAM memory that the calculations will need to use, and an
> error message appear: “this ram memory allocation is to large to
> manager”!!! (you can believe me: I need 1Gb!)
> 2) The Linux can “see” only 896MB of RAM memory. If you know anything about
> this Linux RAM memory limitation, please give some hints to solve also this
> problem (I have already tried the option “mem=1024M”....something like that
> in the liloconf....did not work!)
>
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
>
> Aneuri de Amorim (Ph.D. student)
> Laboratório de Ciencias Radiológicas - LCR
> Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
> Rua São Francisco Xavier 524
> Pavilhão Haroldo Lisboa da Cunha – sala 136
> CEP.:20550-013 - Rio de Janeiro – RJ -Brazil
> http://unimail.unisys.com.br
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