From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 6:33:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.walshsimmons.co.uk (www.walshsimmons.co.uk [194.200.209.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42D837B80D for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 06:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@walshsimmons.co.uk) Received: from cesar.nationnet.com (mag.nation-net.com [194.200.209.123]) by www.walshsimmons.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA04274; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:46:03 +0100 (BST) From: "Paul Walsh" To: "Lowell Gilbert" Cc: Subject: RE: MAXMEM on freeBSD3.4-RELEASE Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:33:25 +0100 Message-ID: <010c01bfc584$a38dd700$7bd1c8c2@nationnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <44vh04uluw.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. It was quicker to recompile - kernels are now built and humming .... Great OS - been using it for 5 years. Regards, Paul Walsh WALSH SIMMONS The Old Bank, 247 Chapel St, Manchester, UK T:01618399337 F:01618399336 ISDN:01618346884 www.walshsimmons.co.uk Paul mobile: 07714 523312 Sweet dreams at http://www.laterooms.com -----Original Message----- From: lowell@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [mailto:lowell@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net]On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: 24 May 2000 14:19 To: Paul Walsh Subject: Re: MAXMEM on freeBSD3.4-RELEASE paul@walshsimmons.co.uk (Paul Walsh) writes: > Only seeing 64M on a Dell P550 with 384M of ram > > Have tried: > > boot -MAXMEM=393216 > > from loader - any suggestions for a temp fix? > > Could I use kernel_options in /boot/defaults/loader.conf - if so what > syntax? > > I have RT'd every FM by the way ;-) > > I intend to rebuild kernel first chance I get ... As a rule, that *is* the recommended temporary fix. None of the other things you mentioned have any chance of working that I can see; MAXMEM is a compile-time variable, and thus can't be set at runtime. There are some references to a hw.maxmem variable, but I can't track it down quickly; you might play with "set hw.maxmem=393216", but it may not help... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message