Re: [newbie] RAM question

2003-07-25 Thread crak600
On Thursday 24 July 2003 07:01 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 25 July 2003 03:37 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Friday 25 July 2003 10:49, Sharrea wrote: > > > Difference is likely one takes the cache into account while the other > > > is reporting without cache. There is nothing to worry about

Re: [newbie] RAM question

2003-07-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 25 July 2003 10:49, Sharrea wrote: > > Difference is likely one takes the cache into account while the other is > reporting without cache. There is nothing to worry about. Linux stores a > lot in cache but releases what is required when needed (like opening > another app). This way Li

Re: [newbie] RAM question

2003-07-25 Thread Sharrea
> On Friday 25 July 2003 02:05 am, crak600 wrote: > > ok, i was tooling around and decided to see how much ram i was > > currently using. i have 768mb installed and linux knows it (running a > > 950 processor, decent speed combo). so i look at i'm fluctuating > > between 5 and 20mb of free ram le

Re: [newbie] RAM question

2003-07-24 Thread crak600
i just fired up ksim and it says i've got 588M physical ram free. but why is there a discrepancy between what it says when i check memory and in ksim? any ideas? On Friday 25 July 2003 02:05 am, crak600 wrote: > ok, i was tooling around and decided to see how much ram i was currently > using

[newbie] RAM question

2003-07-24 Thread crak600
ok, i was tooling around and decided to see how much ram i was currently using. i have 768mb installed and linux knows it (running a 950 processor, decent speed combo). so i look at i'm fluctuating between 5 and 20mb of free ram left. so i think this just can't be right, i mean, to use up ALL

RE: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Marlo Montanaro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM Questions On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:44 pm, Russ wrote: > okay, I do have onboard video but I h

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 February 2003 12:44 pm, Russ wrote: > okay, I do have onboard video but I have an agp video card installed. I > wonder is MD is getting confused? (it did fined my agp card though). > Anyway, next time I install MD I will look at the ram and see what it is > seeing. > > I am experimen

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 08 February 2003 09:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to reme

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
okay, I do have onboard video but I have an agp video card installed. I wonder is MD is getting confused? (it did fined my agp card though). Anyway, next time I install MD I will look at the ram and see what it is seeing. I am experimenting with various configurations with MD9 and RedHat 8. There

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 8 2003 10:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of > your physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition > itself, that is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't > it be 512? > > I seem to rem

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread et
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:47 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:38 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > > ph

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread CyberCFO
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:57 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > At this moment I am recompiling the kernel (for the third times this > week :-( due to a problem with X not starting) and the swap has already > been used by the system even when my computer has 512Mb ram (aroound > 350Mb free acording t

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:38, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > The rule I follow is > > 2x RAM when physical RAM is 128MB or less; > 1x RAM when physical RAM is 256MB but greater than 128; > never a bigger swap than 256MB > > In monitoring, I have never had my swap usage get above 80MB when my phy

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Gregory K. Meyer, CPA
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:38 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, > > that is

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
Thanks for the response. I'll let MD deal with it then. Russ - Original Message - > On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partiti

Re: [newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Gregory K. Meyer, CPA
On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:24 am, Russ wrote: > Hi All, > > I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your > physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that > is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? > > I seem to reme

[newbie] RAM Questions

2003-02-08 Thread Russ
Hi All, I understand that the swap partition should be about twice that of your physical ram. I have 256megs and when I allow MD to partition itself, that is the size of the swap partition it makes. Shouldn't it be 512? I seem to remember (from previous tries in the past) that there was an issue

[newbie] RAM

2002-04-24 Thread asd asdf
How do i cat my ram? My brother did it in a bash shell and it was wierd, where is it located or do i have to run some sort of program? _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ??

2002-01-28 Thread Neil Davidson
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ?? Last Sunday there was a post from Steve Flynn about 'unused memory': As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as

[newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ??

2002-01-28 Thread David
I have an SMP PIII system running Mandrake 8.1 with (was 512M ram) however while working on an image in the GIMP i was shocked to discovered my ram was at 99% and 7% swap. OK the image was 100M in size but what about the rest. After i have finished and have closed down GIMP etc not all my ram r

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
'll be building my next one, so I know exactly what's in it. Thanks for the answer's, I know it wasn't exactly Linux related, but cheers anyway! -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September 2001 15:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
run across is actually the best reason to learn about hardware, and build your own system. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay > > -Original Message- > From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 September 2001 14:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
1 14:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it > needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should > have co

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch escribió: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it > needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should > have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and > what do I find? Two 64M

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Lin
cient for this sort of stuff?? > > > rgsd > > Frank > > > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brandon Caudle > Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread s
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:47 am, Adrian Lynch wrote: > Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs > to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come > with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? > Two 64Mb

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Franki
audle Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusab

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Brandon Caudle
If you talking about how much ram is necessary, I feel there is never enough, I have 768meg of PC133, and Suse Still uses 400meg of swap. With 200 days+ up time its a little excusable, but if your building a server, that has a required uptime, Get the max you can afford! ~Brandon Caudle >Ad

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-11 Thread Adrian Lynch
Speaking of RAM, I hope nobody minds me slating a PC company, but it needs to be said. I bought a PC from Evesham a while back, it should have come with 128Mb PC133 SDRAM, just opened it up lastnight, and what do I find? Two 64Mb chips, one PC133 the other PC100. Not a happy bunny, see >> :o(

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread markie
Whats the problem? Unless of course you're after some older memory > type! > > -Original Message- > From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 September 2001 04:14 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > > > I wi

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
I wish I had read the other answers before sending that last one. Sorry :o( -Original Message- From: Warren Post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 September 2001 04:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
bject: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. Both will be used for public Internet access: IceWM, Konquero

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
ECTED] |Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? | | |I maintain a collection of interesting quotes. Whenever I come |across something I like, I add it to the collection. Some of |them make great e-mail signatures :-) | |On Thu, 6 S

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? | | |On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 09:54, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: |> That one is right up there with memorable sayings from CEO's... |> |> Another of my favorites was DEC's CEO saying that no one would ever |> have or toler

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
he auditorium was being rendered in _real-time_ by a GeForce 3 in a Mac. Simply amazing. > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |-Original Message- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sridhar > |Dhanapalan > |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
D]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? | | |Perhaps you mean this little quote: | |"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 | |On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:21, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: |> Didn't someone once say that 640K of Ram was more than

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Well said. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, etharp wrote: > "enough RAM" and "Enough Money" are myths. they do not really exist, you > always want more. > > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 17:08, Charles Punch wrote: > > "Arthur H. Jo

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
|-Original Message- > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of etharp > |Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:00 AM > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charles Punch; > |[EMAIL PROTECTED] > |Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > | >

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread Paul
> On 05 Sep 2001 14:08:13 +0200, Robert MacLean wrote: > > I think so.If I remember right they work for Microsoft now on > > something called Windows Memory Management ;) > > > > > Didn't someone once say that 640K of Ram was more than anyone would > > ever > > > need? > > The infamous Bill

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-05 Thread etharp
"enough RAM" and "Enough Money" are myths. they do not really exist, you always want more. On Tuesday 04 September 2001 17:08, Charles Punch wrote: > "Arthur H. Johnson II" wrote: > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the > > k5. > > > > Arthur H. Johnson II > >

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Charles Punch
"Arthur H. Johnson II" wrote: > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the > k5. > > Arthur H. Johnson II > On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: > > > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > > it. I know I need to get more RAM, b

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
For that price you can migrate to Duron! Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Matt Greer wrote: > on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now.

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/4/01 11:18 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Warren, I know we are all on a budget but RAM is dirt cheap right now... you > can get a 256MB for about $33 now... That's true for RAM intended for recent computers. But if a computer uses SIMMs and such, it's not so cheap. A 128MB

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
stuff... > http://www.microchipcomputers.com/ > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Arthur H. Johnson II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:10 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > &

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Mark Johnson
son II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > > > > I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with > 64 on the > k5. > > Arthur H. Johnson

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I would recommend 128 Megs. You may be able to get away with 64 on the k5. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Warren Post wrote: > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > it. I know I need to get more

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/3/01 10:13 PM, Warren Post at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? > > Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. > Both will be used for pu

Re: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Robert MacLean
ginal Message - From: "Warren Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:13 AM Subject: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough? > I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading > it. I know I need to get

[newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

2001-09-04 Thread Warren Post
I will be installing LM8.0 on two PCs as soon as I finish downloading it. I know I need to get more RAM, but how much is enough? Box 1 is a Celeron 366 MHz with 32 MB, box 2 is a K5 100 MHz with 16 MB. Both will be used for public Internet access: IceWM, Konqueror and/or Netscape, KOffice and/or

Re:[newbie] RAM full

2001-06-14 Thread civileme
On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:52, Gunner Carstens wrote: > > Hmmm, > > > > It would be unusual if the RAM weren't nearly full > > regardless. The linux kernel believes unused memory is > > wasted memory. Memory full is a NORMAL condition. > > > > Let's see what your hardware is. If you have an MVP3

Re: [newbie] RAM full

2001-06-13 Thread Nico Krzebek
but you DO have some swap space allocated on your hard disk, haven't you? On Tuesday 12 June 2001 23:23, you wrote: > I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly > installed system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the programs - > like KDE mediaplayer - won´t star

Re: [newbie] RAM full

2001-06-13 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 09:45, Dave Sherman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 13 June 2001 08:30, thus spake Quaylar: > > At 23:23 12.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: > > >I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on > > > a newly installed system.

Re: [newbie] RAM full

2001-06-13 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 June 2001 08:30, thus spake Quaylar: > At 23:23 12.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: > >I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly > > installed system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the > > programs - like K

Re: [newbie] RAM full

2001-06-13 Thread Quaylar
At 23:23 12.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: >I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly installed >system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the programs - like KDE >mediaplayer - won´t start up. I found out that with NO programs started >from the desktop by me, the RAM i

[newbie] RAM full

2001-06-12 Thread Gunner Carstens
I'm using a Mandrake 7.2 on a Pentium 3 with 128MB RAM, on a newly installed system. I found it a bit slow and quite a bit of the programs - like KDE mediaplayer - won´t start up. I found out that with NO programs started from the desktop by me, the RAM is nearly full! I can see, that I'm runnin

[newbie] ram incompatibility

2001-02-26 Thread Tea Pot
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Re: [newbie] Ram optimization also (IceWM)

2001-02-16 Thread Jacqueline Michell
Drak: RE: nope tried that and it took me to a screen where I had to login(again) only this time I had to do it as root. It wouldnt accept my user password. Install the KDE package and all works fine. ;) I did ctrl-alt-del from an IceWM screen: I got a nice little window with 9 choices: shutdown

Re: [newbie] Ram optimization also (IceWM)

2001-02-16 Thread Drak
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram optimization also (IceWM) > Drak wrote: > > >also I use iceWM and cannot figure out how to get it to shut down > >properly any help would be greatly appeciated... > > By accident, I

Re: [newbie] Ram optimization also (IceWM)

2001-02-16 Thread Jacqueline Michell
Drak wrote: >also I use iceWM and cannot figure out how to get it to shut down >properly any help would be greatly appeciated... By accident, I found a nice shutdown window by hitting: ctrl-alt-del Jacqueline Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero

Re: [newbie] RAM Disk Error

2001-02-16 Thread Rem
ot;Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Rem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RAM Disk Error > I had this same problem, and so I burnt another copy from the Mandrake > ISOs I had download

Re: [newbie] RAM Disk Error

2001-02-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I had this same problem, and so I burnt another copy from the Mandrake ISOs I had downloaded. This worked fine, which has led me to believe that my original copy was burnt incorrectly. On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:37, Rem wrote: > I have had a very odd problem: > I have a computer, with Athlon 700 M

[newbie] RAM Disk Error

2001-02-15 Thread Rem
I have had a very odd problem: I have a computer, with Athlon 700 Mhz, 30G HD, and 512MB RAM. I wanted to put Mandrake 7.2 on it and it will give "ramdisk error" (It can not generate the ramdisk) at the begining of installation and quit. Any idea why? The oddest thing perhaps, is that i didn't ha

Re: [newbie] Ram optimization also

2001-02-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 February 2001 20:13, you wrote: > I red and did the HD optimization... now i was wondering if > there is any memory ops I could also do? > Does xwindows really take that much that much ram? > > running a abit bx6 r2 > P3 500 > 128 mbs ram > rage lt pro > 3com 5909b nic to a dsl rout

[newbie] Ram optimization also

2001-02-15 Thread drak
I red and did the HD optimization... now i was wondering if there is any memory ops I could also do? Does xwindows really take that much that much ram? running a abit bx6 r2 P3 500 128 mbs ram rage lt pro 3com 5909b nic to a dsl router (cisco 675) also I use iceWM and cannot figure out how t

Re: [newbie] Ram seen in 7.2

2000-12-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 30 December 2000 02:27 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: > >only showing 64mg I have added the append = "mem=128" to lilo.conf > > but it does not seem to have made a difference to what the control center > > Did you remember to run lilo as a command after

Re: [newbie] Ram seen in 7.2

2000-12-31 Thread Paul
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: >only showing 64mg I have added the append = "mem=128" to lilo.conf but >it does not seem to have made a difference to what the control center Did you remember to run lilo as a command after the change? (You need to do this as root). That will fix

[newbie] Ram seen in 7.2

2000-12-30 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I have a fairly stable installation of 7.2 and KDE2.1beta1. My problem is I just added another 64mb of ram and it shows up on the initial boot before the OS comes up and it shows up on the control center on hda which has 7.1 installed. It also shows on the first pixmap on boot (the one

Re: [newbie] ram issue

2000-11-23 Thread goldenpi
Paul wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, chronos . wrote: > > >Hi all, > >Having a ram issue my 7.1 box only sees 64 of my 128. So how do I fix this ? I >found this on mandrakeuser.org and Im not sure how this works. It said in grub title >linuxkernel (hda0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 mem=12

Re: [newbie] ram issue

2000-11-22 Thread Paul
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, chronos . wrote: >Hi all, >Having a ram issue my 7.1 box only sees 64 of my 128. So how do I fix this ? I found >this on mandrakeuser.org and Im not sure how this works. It said in grub title linux > kernel (hda0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 mem=128m So Im not sure wher

Re: [newbie] ram issue

2000-11-22 Thread tweeter
the mem=128M (note capital M) must be before the root=dev/hda1 I had the same problem before and that fixed it. Tweeter "chronos ." wrote: > > Hi all, > Having a ram issue my 7.1 box only sees 64 of my 128. So how do I fix this ? I found >this on mandrakeuser.org and Im not sure how this works

[newbie] ram issue

2000-11-22 Thread chronos .
Hi all, Having a ram issue my 7.1 box only sees 64 of my 128. So how do I fix this ? I found this on mandrakeuser.org and Im not sure how this works. It said in grub title linux kernel (hda0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=dev/hda1 mem=128m So Im not sure where to put this in.

Re: [newbie] RAM hog

2000-10-02 Thread ozgur cagdas
; h.ozgur cagdas. >From: Roxane Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] RAM hog >Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:08:03 -0700 > >I just installed Linux-mandrake 6.0 and once I'm in the desktop >environment about 2 to 5

Re: [newbie] RAM hog

2000-10-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Roxane Bennett wrote: > > I just installed Linux-mandrake 6.0 and once I'm in the desktop > environment about 2 to 5 minutes later the system freezes on me. I can't > open a program for very long without it freezing up on me. Why is it > using so much RAM? I have 64MB of RAM. What can I do to op

Re: [newbie] RAM hog

2000-10-01 Thread Jeff Malka
EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 3:08 AM Subject: [newbie] RAM hog > I just installed Linux-mandrake 6.0 and once I'm in the desktop > environment about 2 to 5 minutes later the system freezes on me. I can't > open a program for very long without it freezing up on

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-11 Thread Mogens Jæger
e same amount of memory but > > different manufacturers so > > what he thinks makes a lot of sense. > > > > Patti > > Registered Linux User #184611 > > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message > &

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Romanator
A V Flinsch wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found > > that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my > > machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to > > get their

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
> And here is the kicker...In Windows I couldn't run more than 800x640 res, while in >Linux I can go 1024x724. Figure that out, eh? This is a function of the video drivers you have installed on both operating systems. You could fix it in Windows but you have to go to a different conference fo

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Roger Pithers
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found > that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my > machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to > get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-10 Thread Jason Ashman
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found > that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my > machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to > get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-09 Thread john bodanske
I know that the 15-16M hole that's in a lot of BIOSes will make it misreport - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: [newbie] RAM Detec

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-09 Thread Patti Wavinak
We have identical motherboards and the mobo detects all of my ram -- go figure ;-) Patti Registered Linux User 184611 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 9/9/00,

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi Dennis, I didn't have any trouble when I installed Mandrake on my machine at work. It too has 128MB RAM. I think though it's got something to do with the mobo that's being used. I guess some do and some don't. -- Mark *

Re: [newbie] RAM Detection

2000-09-09 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
sense. > > Patti > Registered Linux User #184611 > > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > On 9/10/00, 6:04:21 AM, Dennis Myers > &l

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Yikes. I have the Power Pack. I should checked my CDs... Now which one is it? I should installed it first rather then downloading it.. Maybe that will resolve the mime errors? Thanks, Roman Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Back again, > > > > I think th

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: >Back again, > >I think the file extensions for a Real Player plugin is .ram. > >Any ideas? You can download a free version of RealPlayer 7.0 for Linux at www.real.com Paul )0(---)0( Finally I know how many stars there are:

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Romanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Back again, > > I think the file extensions for a Real Player plugin is .ram. RealPlayer is shipped with the PowerPack http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpowerpack.php3>. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.

[newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-27 Thread Romanator
Back again, I think the file extensions for a Real Player plugin is .ram. Any ideas? Roman

Re: [newbie] RAM

2000-05-08 Thread Dmitri Shalonin
Type 'dmesg' and hit or 'dmesg | more'. See "Memory: ..." section at fist rows. Tran Michael wrote: > How do i check how much of my 128 megs are seen by mandrake? > -michael-

Re: [newbie] RAM

2000-05-08 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Michael wrote: > > How do i check how much of my 128 megs are seen by mandrake? > -michael- Type..freeat the prompt. Gene

Re: [newbie] RAM

2000-05-08 Thread John Wenger
Michael wrote: > > How do i check how much of my 128 megs are seen by mandrake? > -michael- >From the command line, type free and then inspect column one. Try top for a continually updating display of how much memory is being used by all of your processes. John

[newbie] RAM

2000-05-08 Thread Michael
How do i check how much of my 128 megs are seen by mandrake? -michael-

Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems]

2000-03-12 Thread Colin Waddell
RTFM - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 4:55 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems] > "Charles Ulwelling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having trouble wit

Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems]

2000-03-11 Thread condeuser

Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems]

2000-03-11 Thread Mark Irving
iginal Message - From: Michael Scottaline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 6:55 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Ram Problems] >

Re: [newbie] Ram Problems

2000-03-10 Thread Pendragon
I hear it could get ugly if you remove RAM so keep boot disk with out > this set. > > "Knowledge is Power" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Original Message - > From: Charles Ulwelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday,

Re: [newbie] Ram Problems

2000-03-10 Thread Wayne
Pendragon, I have similar problems. As yet, I do not have an answer. HOwever, Linux does seem to report an unusally high amount of memory for my system in other areas. I am just wondering if it uses the >64 area for something else. Wayne

Re: [newbie] Ram Problems

2000-03-10 Thread Enterprise2001
t this set. "Knowledge is Power" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Charles Ulwelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie] Ram Problems > I am having trouble with Linux Mandrake 7 recognizing

[newbie] Ram Problems

2000-03-10 Thread Charles Ulwelling
I am having trouble with Linux Mandrake 7 recognizing all my ram. I have 256megs in my system and Mandrake only recognizes 64 megs of that when I boot. I have an Abit BE6 motherboard. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Pendragon

Re: [newbie] Ram dectection

2000-03-03 Thread Brent Timmer
Do it like this append="mem=128M hdc=ide-scsi" Good Luck - Original Message - From: Carrefour Esotérique - L'Annuaire de l'Esotérisme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram dectect

RE: [newbie] Ram dectection

2000-03-01 Thread Lane Lester
Sender: "Carrefour > I tried to put the line append="mem=128M" into my lilo.conf but i've yet an > append="hdc=ide-scsi". And 2 appends in the same stanza generate an > error message. > > How can I solve that ? I saw somewhere that you can put more than one item in the single append, but I d

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