[lug] Why can't Linux see my memory?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:17:32PM -0700, jhayward at Boldtech.com wrote:
>I've tried looking at the memory utilization in xosview, top, gtop, and with
>sysinfo commands.  In all cases it seems like my box only sees around 64MB
>of ram.  xosview consistenly shows up to around 59 - 62 MB in use, very

Try using "append":

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
	label=linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda3
	append="mem=256M"

Re-run "lilo" after making the change to /etc/lilo.conf, and reboot.  We had
one of our boxes doing that last week -- sure impacts VMWare's performance...

Sean
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