[wplug] Use only a portion of system memory?

[Eli Heady]

On 1/12/07, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:03 -0500, Eli Heady wrote:
> > Odd situation, but I need to use only half of the system memory for a
> > benchmarking project.
> >
> > Anybody know how I can accomplish this (without removing the physical RAM)?
>
> Since you're removing half the ram from the pool, you should be able to
> pass a MEM=256M or something like that to the kernel (see lilo.conf or
> grub.conf to pass it) if the machine has 512MB.  It tends to get a bit
> flunky if you're not using powers of 2 though.  Just a word of warning
> on that.
>

Thanks, I'll try that.