* mem= parameter, 2.4.18 vs 2.4.24
@ 2004-02-17 17:08 Jan Knutar
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From: Jan Knutar @ 2004-02-17 17:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Just upgraded an old computer from 2.4.18 to 2.4.24. The system has 24M
ram, but the bios reports only 16.
Discovered that mem=24M doesn't let Linux use all of it, like in 2.4.18,
only 16M in 2.4.24.
mem=8M@16M has the desired result, making the whole incredibly large 24M
ram available :-)
RTFSing leads me to believe that mem=xxxM can only limit ram size, but
Documentation/memory.txt and Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt make
me think ram=24M should work like it did in 2.4.18. I'm guessing
nobody updated the documentation? :)
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