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Re: PP200 w/ 128M RAM never uses SWAP :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Morten Guldager Jensen)
Mon Nov 25 09:01:05 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:59:13 +0100 (MET)
From: Morten Guldager Jensen <Morten.Guldager.Jensen@uni-c.dk>
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On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Mark R. Cervarich wrote:
> I have redhat 3.0.3 running linux 2.0.13 on a Pentium Pro 200 MHz
> machine with 128M of RAM and 100M of swap space. I have never,
> never seen the machine use the swap space!!! The memory will
> get so that ~126Meg of RAM will be used up and ~1Meg will be
> free, but even if I open up more apps, they will crash and nothing
> more will be run.
>
> I have set LILO to include the append=128meg statement.
Have you tried without the append line? Linux will only use the first
64MB, but then swapping should work.
Somewhere in a HOWTO it is mentioned that special care should be taken
with the append line. Some motherboards "eat" some of you memory, up to
1/2 MB, I guess...?
/Morten %-)
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