[NCLUG] Memory append in LILO. . .

M Butcher mbutcher at aleph-null.tv
Tue Apr 24 22:22:40 MDT 2001


Just out of curiosity, what tool is telling you that you are using 256M of 
RAM?

On Tuesday 24 April 2001 04:53 pm, you wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a situation in which I would like to make less memory (believe it or
> not) available to the kernel in Linux.  I have 256MB installed in the
> system, but only want 128MB to be used.  I have tried adding
> append="mem=127M" to the kernel parameters in LILO with no luck - the
> system still sees the full 256MB.  Any suggestions on how I can do this?
>
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> Jeff Elizondo
> Resource Engineer
> HP Loveland Customer Care Center
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