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Re: Linux does not support 640MB MO disk

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From: David Chinner
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00
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In article <3378a072.3387137@news.asiaonline.net>, lulu@asiaonline.net (Andrew Ng) writes:

[problem about MO disk - no idea]

|> Another problem: I have 64 MB RAM installed, but when run vmstat and
|> free, the following information is displayed
|> 
|> free:
|> 
|>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
|> cached
|> Mem:         14652       9480       5172       5544       1476
|> 5188
|> -/+ buffers:             2816      11836
|> Swap:            0          0          0
|> 
|> vmstat:
|> 
|>  procs            memory    swap        io    system         cpu
|>  r b w  swpd  free  buff  si  so   bi   bo   in   cs  us  sy  id
|>  0 0 0     0  5132  1508   0   0   24    2  111   19   1   7  93
|> 
|> 14652KB total memory and 5132KB free memory. Where is the memory gone?

Try recompiling the kernel, and make sure it has support for memory partitions
greater than 16MB. What kernel version do you have?

Dave.
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