** Reply to message from "John W. Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 16
Feb 2001 04:11:41 +0000
> Thanks to all of you who responded to my first query. To restate the initial
> question:
>
> I run RH 7.0 on a workstation with 256 MB of RAM. Performance declines after
> awhile due to heavy swapping. I check memory utilization with the 'free'
> command and learn that the system recognizes only 64 MB of RAM (the Linux
> installation default), and it's all used up. The problem is this; how do I
> get beyond the installation default settings and make the OS recognize the
> actual amount of physical RAM available?
>snip>
> Those are the responses so far. This appears to be a sticky question. Any
> further help would be appreciated.
Just so you know what it should look like, here is my lightly loaded
RH7/2.4.1-ac15 box which also has 256M of RAM:
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255704 253076 2628 0 9672 60040
-/+ buffers/cache: 183364 72340
Swap: 528280 48300 479980
As usual, linux grabs as much of the RAM as possible. The swap is from a
previous Netscape session :)
It seems you have two problems: 1) your system RAM not being recognizedl 2)
your system swapping heavily after a period of use. Perhaps they are related,
perhaps not. Have you tried reseating the memory sticks on the motherboard?
Jack Bowling
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