Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:29:48 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE> Cc: jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: real memory = 68091904 (66496K bytes) Message-ID: <199710080229.TAA16222@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:00:32 %2B0200." <199710080100.DAA01120@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de>
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>> >> I have a pentium (P5) 200 MHz system, with 128 meg of edo >> ram installed. The motherboard has the TX chipset, which >> allows only the first 64 meg to be cache'able. >> >> Why does unix only find 64 meg of ram? > >I guess this belongs to the FreeBSD-questions list instead, because >it's not a bug. >You have to set >options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)" >in your kernel configurtion file. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more >info about MAXMEM. Actually, that's no longer necessary. There was a bug in the new autodetection, however, which is why it only found 65MB of RAM. That problem has been fixed in -current and it should properly detect all of his memory without any special kernel options. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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