Re: Reducing the physical memory for the allocator

[Prabhu nath <gprabhunath@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your kind replies. 
Prabhu

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Prabhu,

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Prabhu nath <gprabhunath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>          I am trying to experiment the following.
>
> * I have a 1 GB of RAM and running Linux 2.6.34 on a Intel Machine.
> * I want memory allocator to get only 768 MB of RAM.
> * The rest 256 MB of RAM, Kernel should see it has IO memory
>
> Is there any option that I can pass to the kernel so that it only takes 768
> MB of RAM.

I believe that you can pass mem=768M on the command line

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