From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 20:40:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8337151CC for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA78339; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:39:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:39:38 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ken Cc: Erin Fortenberry , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only 16MB RAM in a 200MB box Message-ID: <19990726223938.A78277@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net>; from "Ken" on Mon Jul 26 16:37:57 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 26), Ken said: > Okay, a bit more info. I've got 3 other boxes, all running 3.2, each > sporting 128 MB RAM, and all using generic 3.2 kernel. So now I need to > compile a custom kernel just to use 200MB? This is FreeBSD- not NT! > > Thanks for your output, btw. I'll delve deeper into this. Are your other 3 boxes all Compaqs? No Compaq I've ever laid hands on (admittedly in the 486 and pentium range) has been able to report more than 16MB; it's some genetic deficency inherited from model to model as far as I can tell. Luckily, setting MAXMEM has always worked on them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message