Re: [PLUG] kernel parameters for memory usage?

[Paul <emailme@dpagin.net>]

Mattison, Jacob wrote:

> Hi, folks.
>
> I'm running RedHat 9 on a Dell PowerEdge server that supposedly has 2 Gig of
> RAM.  However, when I run "top", the total memory listed is about 1 Gig.  Is
> there something I can do, perhaps kernel parameters in grub.conf or
> elsewhere, to get it to access all of the memory?  Please oh please don't
> tell me I need to recompile the kernel..... :)
>
>  

I can't give you the exact syntax, but you might be able to solve this 
by passing a parameter at boot to the kernel to tell it how much memory 
the machine has.  The option might be "mem=".

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