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Re: [TCLUG:2678] memory above 64megs




Interesting. I'm running 2.1.131 but I may have put the line in there while
using the 2.0.x kernel that came with slackware and never bothered to
question whether it was still necessary since it wasn't causing any 
trouble. I'll have to try it without that line.

Hans

Peter Lukas wrote:
> There's a memory patch out that sees beyone the 64MB limit.  RedHat
> probably uses it.  Also, this patch is integrated in the 2.1.x kernels.
> If you're interested in it, mail me and I'll give it to you.
> 
> Peter Lukas
> Math Systems Office
> University of Minnesota
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Jon Kotek wrote:
> 
> > Well I am running redhat 5.0 2.0.35 kernal.  Anyways I ran lilo and now it
> > sees all the memory.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > At 02:43 PM 12/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
> > >For some reason redhat recognizes more than 64 megs of ram. I'm not sure why,
> > >possibly a newer version of lilo? However, slackware does not (even 3.6). As
> > >far as I know if the system reports it it should be available.
> > >
> > >Hans
> > > 
> > >Eric Hillman wrote:
> > >> 	Say, now I'm confused -- I don't have anything like this in *my*
> > lilo.conf,
> > >> and my system seems to recognize its 128M of DIMMs just fine.  Is this
> > >> because I have a newer, DIMM-using system?  Or because I'm using RedHat
> > 5.2?
> > >> Or am I just lucky?
> > >> 	Or, is it possible that even though the system reports 128M of memory,
> > that
> > >> only 64M is going to be available to some applications if I don't edit
> > >> lilo.conf?  ('top' reports 80M in use right now, so I doubt that...)
> > >> 
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