Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:49:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: mem size at bootup |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Yaoping Ruan wrote:
> Hello, > > could anybody tell me if there's any option to specify the size of > memory I want to use in Linux. We have a box with 4GB memory but we > would like to run some experiment with only 2GB memory. Is there any > option like the "hw.physmem" in FreeBSD? > > Thanks a lot > > - Yaoping Ruan
mem=16M
...on the LILO command-line will tell Linux to use only 16 megabytes. You hit the [Alt] key during boot to get to the LILO command-line. Then you can hit the [Tab] key to see the available systems to boot.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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