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I added mem=16M just before ro (you don't want to put it just after
loadlin or it won't boot) and got mem total 14176.  With Xmono, ratpoison,
one xterm, Opera (which still took only 30 sec or less to load) and a
second virtual terminal open (to run free) I have 416 free. 
Swap 0.  Why do I have 2M less than 16M memory?  (I get 30M instead of 32M
normally).  Is the 2M what the kernel is using?

I have not tried Opera online yet.  It is likely to do a lot of swapping
to the swap partition especially if run with graphics on.

Toggling to full-screen mode with F11 (or in my case the number pad -) did
not reduce memory usage at all.


> > Is there some easy way I could tell linux to operate 
> > with only 16M RAM so I could check whether Opera still 
> > works okay?
> 
> I think you can do that by adding the following to
> the loadin line (in boot.bat):
> -------
> mem=16M
> -------
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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