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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).
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