[nflug] ram swap fc4

[Greg Neumann]

Most motherboard POST's count memory as 1 mb = 1000 kb, while the OS
usually uses 1 mb = 1024 kb. The latter formula gives you 768 mb
total, so 757.6 is just  10.4 mb "missing". I'd leave it alone,
especially because if you "give" the system ram that isn't there, no
telling what may happen if the system actually tries to address it.

jb wrote:
> I have 786.432 mb of ram and the system monitor indicates 757.6 mb.
> I know some of the ram is reserved and I think in all probability
> the 757.6 mb is a correct reading for usable ram but I'm not
> absolutely sure so I'm wondering if I should manually add the
> actual amount of ram which is 786.432 mb or if all is well and I
> should leave it alone? Also I have a slight swap problem. When I
> boot up, my swap isn't automatically turned on. I found a solution
> by using these commands. su /sbin/mkswap -L swap /dev/hdb1 
> /sbin/swapon /dev/hdb1 Then the swap works fine until I reboot
> again which isn't very often so if I forget to turn the swapon I am
> going to run into a problem because I dip into the swap quite a
> bit, especially when I'm messing with big mb pictures and gimp. I
> searched the web for info which led me to the commands but I'm
> unsure how, what or where to add commands to get the swapon at boot
> up. Fedora has a bugzilla report on this but I can't find the
> permanent fix, just the temp fix using the commands. If someone
> could chime in with some info or a solution I would appreciate it. 
> Thanks in advance, jb 
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