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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 1996 12:24:34 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        hey@tuns.ca (Yingjun (Ian) He)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 128 mb RAM
Message-ID:  <199604020254.MAA09655@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604011451.GAA28452@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Yingjun (Ian) He" at Apr 1, 96 10:51:14 am

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Yingjun (Ian) He stands accused of saying:
> 
> I am running FreeBSD 2.05 on my Pentium 133 system. The GENERIC kernel
> can only use about 13 mb of my 128mb RAM. I followed the FAQ advise to
> add a kernel option
> 
>              options  "MAXMEM=131072"
> 
> and recompiled a new kernel. After I reboot the system, I saw the message:
>  
>           real memory :  133824572 (32672 pages)
>           bad memory  :  1048576   (256 pages)
>           available memory: 13598720 (3320 pages)
> 
> which means I can only use 13.5 mb of my 128mb RAM. It is very strange.
> When I use the GENERIC kernel to boot the system, I have the following 
> message:

Sounds like you have a 'memory hole'.  Check your BIOS and make sure that
it's disabled if it's an offered feature - the gap is about where you'd 
normally expect such a thing to be.

>   Ian Y.J. He  --->  Home Page: http://www.tuns.ca/~hey

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