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[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:42:22PM -0500, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> Brad Shelton pointed out to me the existence of a Lilo parameter `mem=' for
> specifying the amount of available RAM.  On further investigation I
> discovered a few paragraphs on this subject in the Boot-Prompt Howto (not
> where I would have expected it).
> 
> It seems that the normal PC Bios is unable to report memory sizes greater
> than 64MB.   Linux needs this parameter to find out how much memory is
> actually available.  According to Linus the All-Knowing as quoted in that
> document, overstating the amount of available memory can cause all kinds of
> disasters.  I suspect the problems I was having with a filesystem implosion
> were related to some nonuniformity in the mechanisms used by different system
> components for determining how much memory is present.
> 
> In my case I've specified `mem=128M'.   Has anyone else found this parameter
> to be necessary?

Only on non-SuSE kernels trees.


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