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  From: tim-tree <tim@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Michael Schwarz <michael@merlin.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:54:01 +1030 (CST)

Re: RAM >64MB

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Michael Schwarz wrote:

|I have read else where that if you have 128 meg of ram it is a good idea to
|set your lilo.conf to 127M - aparently this stops potential kernel panics.
|Anyone have any further info on this?

It's probably a good idea to experiment, from the LILO: prompt.
There's no point only using 127M if you *can* use 128. For
example, when I tried mem=72M, Linux froze after a little bit.
When I changed that to mem=71xxxK (where xxx is some number I
can't remember right now), everything worked fine.

I hear the new 2.0.36 can detect higher than 64M anyway..

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Tim Peters <tim@smug.adelaide.edu.au>

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