Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Terry Sheltra
I stand corrected. I knew everyone would set me straight :-) Thanks to all who set me back on the path of righteousness! ;-) Terry Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: If I recall correctly, you need to

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 25 2003 06:43 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: Pretty soon all the PCs and laptops will need to have more than 1GB of RAM. What is happening here is probably an early signal for the kernel developers to revamp memory management. Seedkum The linux-kernel people are

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized kernels for them. IIRC, the kernels were ready before the systems were. OTOH, before you'll see 64

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux performance optimized kernels for them. IIRC, the kernels

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread g
Fred Schroeder wrote: Thanks for all of the replys, guess I will try to roll my own, sure hope I don't screw this up!! you will seldom screw up if you always back up before you install or modify anything that is working. 'things' will screw up enough on their own. peace out. tc,hago. g . --

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-26 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 03:33 pm, civileme wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 01:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 26 2003 11:23 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: While there's already 64 bit production machines, that use gigs of ram, there's also already Linux

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: If I recall correctly, you need to purchase the server version of Mandrake. That version will allow memory to be used higher than 1 GB. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'm sure someone will be

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf. Add the line

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 9:11 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:19:29 +: On Tuesday 25 Feb 2003 7:50 pm, Paul wrote: * When booting, Linux does not see all physically installed memory: e.g. you have 196 megs of RAM and linux only 'sees' 64Megs. As root, you

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Sharrea
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:50, Paul wrote: In reply to Fred's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:44:17 -0600: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory,

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread K. Spress
] Memory limit? On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 10:44 am, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What is up? When the machine boots, it says it has 1572864 memory,

Re: [newbie] Memory limit?

2003-02-25 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:07 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 25 2003 01:44 pm, Fred Schroeder wrote: Hi, I have a Mandrake 9.0 system, in the machine I have put three 512Meg chips, so it should have 1,536Meg of Ram. But in the system monitor, it only shows 884Meg. What