Hi all! I'm running a Suse PPC Linux Server on a G3 Server Machine. Since RAM is cheap, I though on Upgrading the 256 MB Memory to 1 GB. So I bought 3 256 MB DIMM Blocks and stick them into the Server. To my first surprise not all RAM was discovered or shown with "free". Actually I have 4 DIMMs in the Server 2 x 128 MB 2 x 256 MB = 768 MB "free" shows this: free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 578784 558088 20696 113680 444824 59536 -/+ buffers/cache: 53728 525056 Swap: 262136 916 261220 Total: 840920 559004 281916 Any suggestions? Trick? Suse Version is PPC 7.0 Greetings, Olivier -- Olivier Dobberkau . . . . . . . . . . . . d.k.d - creating your webspace digitale kommunikations dienste fon: 069 - 430561-70 fax: 069 - 430561-90 mail: olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de home: http://www.dkd.de
On Mon, Nov 26, Olivier Dobberkau wrote:
Hi all!
I'm running a Suse PPC Linux Server on a G3 Server Machine.
Since RAM is cheap, I though on Upgrading the 256 MB Memory to 1 GB. So I bought 3 256 MB DIMM Blocks and stick them into the Server.
To my first surprise not all RAM was discovered or shown with "free".
Actually I have 4 DIMMs in the Server
2 x 128 MB 2 x 256 MB
= 768 MB
"free" shows this:
free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 578784 558088 20696 113680 444824 59536 -/+ buffers/cache: 53728 525056 Swap: 262136 916 261220 Total: 840920 559004 281916
Any suggestions? Trick?
You should install a 2.4 kernel. It has highmem enabled and it should allow you to use more than 512mb. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
am 28.11.2001 12:49 Uhr schrieb Olaf Hering unter olh@suse.de:
On Mon, Nov 26, Olivier Dobberkau wrote:
Hi all!
I'm running a Suse PPC Linux Server on a G3 Server Machine.
Since RAM is cheap, I though on Upgrading the 256 MB Memory to 1 GB. So I bought 3 256 MB DIMM Blocks and stick them into the Server.
To my first surprise not all RAM was discovered or shown with "free".
Any suggestions? Trick?
You should install a 2.4 kernel. It has highmem enabled and it should allow you to use more than 512mb.
Gruss Olaf
Hi Olaf, Thanks for your response. One more Question then: Can i change the kernel to 2.4 without the need to Upgrade the OS? Actually Suse PPC 7.0. Which Kernel is the best for my G3 Server Machine? Greetings.. Olivier -- Olivier Dobberkau . . . . . . . . . . . . d.k.d - creating your webspace digitale kommunikations dienste fon: 069 - 430561-70 fax: 069 - 430561-90 mail: olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de home: http://www.dkd.de
On Wed, Nov 28, Olivier Dobberkau wrote:
One more Question then: Can i change the kernel to 2.4 without the need to Upgrade the OS? Actually Suse PPC 7.0.
You need a newer ppp.rpm and a newer modutils.rpm. Both can be found on the FTP Server. ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/
Which Kernel is the best for my G3 Server Machine?
The latest ;) Try the 2.4.12, it works ok so far. 2.4.16 might run a bit better but its not very well tested. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Hi all, [I just installed Suse Linux 7.3 PCC on my PowerBook Pismo. First impression: Whau! It seemed to recognize all my hardware (sound, Ethernet etc) and I was up and running in no time. Better than 7.1. Haven't played much with it yet, but I guess airport and modem work just like in 7.1. This is unlike YDL2.1 that has a lovely and simple installer, but failed to recognize my modem, AirPort and sound-card - and did funny thing with the keyboard-layout. Great work, Olaf & Co.!] Anyway... here's my problem and question: On my hard disk i have Linux, MacOS9.x and MacOSX. I let the installer setup LILO with Linux as default, and after the installation and reboot I can chose between Linux and MacOS (space). But... after booting in MacOS9.x I changed the setup in MacOS "startup disk", asking it to start OSX (and not OS9), and now I can only boot in MacOS9 or MacOSX. LILO has diapered, and Mac's "Starup disk" can only "see" OS9 and X. Question: - What?s wrong? - Could I have placed /boot a wrong place? (is it still a problem on new hardware such as a Pismo?) - Is it possible to have LILO do triple-boot; choose between Linux, OS9.x and OSX? - Is it possible without placing OS9.x and OSX on each their partition? (... The index in the manual don?t say anything about OSX.) -j -- Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it!
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