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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:41:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To: jon giles <jong@clinedavis.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: trouble compiling kernel with memory option
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, jon giles wrote:

> Using top, I found that the 128MB of ram we have in our machine was not
> being used.  Only about 64MB
> is being seen by BSD.
>=20
> I found a faq on bsd.org that said that the kernel needs to be told
> explicitly how much ram there is in the machine.  The faq suggested to
> channge MYKERNEL config file by adding this line.
>=20
> "options "MAXMEM=3D<n>"
>=20
> Where n is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd want to
> use 131072."
>=20
> After adding this line, my make came back with this error:
>=20
> cc -c -O -Wreturn-type -Wcomment -Wredundant-decls -Wimplicit
> -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wpointer-arith  -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I/usr/include
> -DAPM_BROKEN_STATCLOCK -DFAILSAFE -DCOMPAT_43 -DCD9660 -DMSDOSFS -DNFS
> -DFFS -DINET -DKERNEL  ../../i386/i386/machdep.c
> ../../i386/i386/machdep.c: In function `init386':
> ../../i386/i386/machdep.c:1157: parse error before `<'
> *** Error code 1
>=20
> If I take out the line, if makes fine.
>=20
> Any help with this would really be apreciated.
>=20
> Here is a copy of my MYKERNEL file:
> #
> # GENERIC -- Generic machine with WD/AHx/NCR/BTx family disks
> #

=2E.. cut a lot here ...

> options  VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
> options  "MAXMEM=3D<131072>" #for mem of 128M

Try:

  options MAXMEM=3D131072

'<' and '>' just indicate that the string <n> shall be replaced by an
integer number.

Regards

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