Memory Issues: /proc/kcore vs. free

[Felix Rauch]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Gary Stiehr wrote:
[...]
> Supposedly the bios on these boards did not properly pass some
> information to the linux kernel about the amount of memory.  It was
> suggested that we boot with
> 
> 	linux mem=128MB
> 
> at the lilo prompt or add
> 
> 	append="mem=128M"
> 
> to /etc/lilo.conf in the "image" sections.
> 
> Unfortunately, this did not work for us but we feel that there may have
> been other complications keeping this suggestion from working for us. 

There were times when it was suggested to put a little less memory in
the "mem=..." option than what the machines actually had. In this
example, it might help to use

   append="mem=127M"

but I don't know if this is still true with recent kernels.

- Felix
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