Re: 2.2.15-pre15 detects my memory wrong?

From: glouis@dynamicro.on.ca
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 06:24:57 EST

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On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Nicholas Vinen wrote:

> Unless I add "mem=256M" to my boot arguments, 2.2.15-pre15 thinks I
> have 64M. Did I configure something wrong? I copied my 2.2.13 config and
> edited it in menuconfig.

I've got one machine that did the same in 2.2.15pre14 (and maybe 13).
It was swapping furiously and eventually died OOM, and apparently that
was why. I added mem=256M and it's running happily.

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