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by **Mário Gamit** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Hello!

I bought a PIII-500 MHz with 128 Mb ram recently.
First, linux said (dmesg, free, cat /proc/meminfo) i only had 64 Mb.

After that, i am passing parameter "mem=128M" to kernel, via LILO and
the system now says i have 128Mb, which seems to be ok, aparently.

My question is: is the system *really* using all 128 Mb, or is it only
"relaying" the information ive passed to it, but in reality, still
using only 64 Mb?

Thanks in advance,
Mrio Gamito
pt is for Portugal

by **kfvandersl..** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> Hello!

> I bought a PIII-500 MHz with 128 Mb ram recently.
> First, linux said (dmesg, free, cat /proc/meminfo) i only had 64 Mb.

> After that, i am passing parameter "mem=128M" to kernel, via LILO and
> the system now says i have 128Mb, which seems to be ok, aparently.

> My question is: is the system *really* using all 128 Mb, or is it only
> "relaying" the information ive passed to it, but in reality, still
> using only 64 Mb?

> Thanks in advance,
> Mrio Gamito
> pt is for Portugal

type 'free' and it will tell you how much memory is used

by **James Silverto** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

> type 'free' and it will tell you how much memory is used

I think the best way is to use top. It also tells you about the swap
file.

Jim.

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Potomac, Maryland.

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