What should I set mem= to?

martinrandau · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: What should I set mem= to?

I have a 2.8GHz Pentium with 1Gb DDR. In dmeg I get a message suggesting that I should use highmem but I think that I can do this in lilo with mem=. My question is what should I set this too?

Earthwings · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

AFAIKK mem=xyz is only useful in case the kernel fails to recognize the amount of RAM correctly, e.g. in case it thinks you've got 32 MB but you've got 512. To actually use 1 GB of memory or more, you need highmem support enabled in the kernel. It probably doesn't have any advantages though.
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martinrandau · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:14 pm Post subject:

Ok. Thanks alot.