[PLUG] memory problem

["michael white" <white_m_j@hotmail.com>]

PLUG,

I recently just had LINUX installed for the first time and I'm having a 
little problem.  I have Redhat 6.2 installed as a dual boot with Win95.  My 
machine has an AMD K6-2 300 chip on a ZP-5V2 motherboard with 64 MB of 
memory.

The problem is that LINUX runs really slow!  (Whereas, when I run Win95 it 
runs pretty fast.)  Its seems like I just don't have enough memory - I can 
hear the hard drive swapping like crazy.

I check the meminfo file in /proc.  This is what it contained:
MemTotal:    13392 kB
MemFree:       160 kB
MemShared:    6284 kB
Buffers:       304 kB
Cached:       4532 kB
BigTotal:        0 kB
BigFree:         0 kB
SwapTotal:  136040 kB
SwapFree:   119080 kB

So, it looks to me like LINUX just isn't seeing all of my memory.

I'm hoping some one will give me some ideas on what is causing this and how 
to change it.  If you would prefer to respond off list please send to 
white_m_j@hotmail.com - thanks.
Michael.
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