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Re: [TCLUG:2678] memory above 64megs



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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