Hello Folks,
Environment: linux 2.2.16smp
RedHat 7.0
I am setting up a system with 1GB RAM recongized by the
BIOS during power-on procedure.
This system having troubles, I set a top command and
with surprise I got this status:
4:33pm up 4:42, 3 users, load average: 4.18, 2.01, 1.09
125 processes: 123 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 9.1% user, 9.0% system, 8.0% nice, 80.1% idle
CPU1 states: 20.0% user, 6.1% system, 20.1% nice, 72.0% idle
Mem: 63892K av, 62480K used, 1412K free, 15076K shrd, 5192K
buff
Swap: 514040K av, 260556K used, 253484K free 11804K
cached
My problem are the 63892K
I remember there is a solution to turn around this problem
forcing LILO to configure 1GB saying, I think but not
sure:
append='memory=1024'
I searched in the lilo doc for memory parameter definition, but
as being coverd by append parameter I found nothing.
Question 1:
Do you have an idea about the reason Linux is using 64MB ?
Question 2:
Is this append command correct to turn out this problem ?
Question 3:
Where can I found informations about append variables wich
are related in fact with modules parameters ?
How to find on source code which module will read the
memory parameter ?
Thanks in advance.
Bye
Edouard Soriano <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember there is a solution to turn around this problem forcing LILO to
> configure 1GB saying, I think but not sure:
>
> append='memory=1024'
>
> I searched in the lilo doc for memory parameter definition, but as being
> coverd by append parameter I found nothing.
"mem=" is documented in the kernel documentation
(...linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt):
mem=<size>
<size> is an integer in C notation optionally followed by K, M
or G (meaning << 10, << 20 or << 30). This specifies to the
kernel the memory size.
[snip]
HTH,
Ray
--
Does Kibo SEE the FNORDS?
Add this:
append="mem=1024M"
to your lilo boot profiles.
... 2.4 correctly detects memory size more often than 2.2.16 ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edouard Soriano" <[email protected]>
Subject: 1GB system working with 64MB
> Hello Folks,
> Environment: linux 2.2.16smp
> RedHat 7.0
>
> My problem are the 63892K
Edouard Soriano wrote:
>
> Hello Folks,
>
> Environment: linux 2.2.16smp
> RedHat 7.0
> My problem are the 63892K
If you upgrade to the 2.2.19 kernel, this will just work,
no need for extra options. (Red Hat also has a 2.2.19 kernel
available as errata release for 7.0)