[ltp] Memory management

[chris christensen]

Thanks Robert,
I'll give it a try next weekend.

Chris Christensen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Munro" <ramunro1@ix.netcom.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] Memory management


> Chris,
>
> Here's how to tell Linux to use all your memory.  Let's assume you have
> 97228k
> as you noted during install.  (96M is 98304k, but some is often
> reserved, so
> 97228k sounds about right.)  Use the lower of the power-on post count
> and this.
>
> Backup lilo.conf:  cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak before you
> change it.
>
> Edit /etc/lilo.conf to add the line:  append=" mem=97228k" (note the
> space) at
> the end of each image= group.
>
> Then run lilo to complete the setup.  That's all there is to it.  Linux
> should
> use all your memory.  Maybe then it won't seem slower than Win98
> anymore.  ;-)
>
> If it crashes, boot from diskette, restore the old file, rerun lilo, try
> again.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Munro
> IBM Global Services
>
>
> chris christensen wrote:
> >
> > On my TP600 I've notice that everything above 64 megs of memory is
cached. I
> > have 96 installed and I  noted 97228 during the insstall. Linux only
> > detected 64.  Is this typical of how Linux handles memory?
> >
> > Running Mandrake seems a bit slower than Win 98 on the other partition.
> >
> > Chris Christensen
> >
>
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