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Date:      Thu, 06 Nov 1997 13:53:42 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
To:        Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Memory allocation
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971106135739.jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971106140455.2499C-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>

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Yeah the RAM rolls up to 48 MB. I solved the problem. I was still using the 
generic kernel andI did not realize that I needed the MAXMEM line in the kernel.

Thanks for the quick reply though. Now my hard drive is not getting butchered 
just by running Netscape  :-) 

Jim

On 06-Nov-97 Steve Hovey wrote:
>
>You sure?  I mean you see it do the ram roll up to the whole 48MB?  Im
>thinking maybe one of the upper simms is bad.
>
>On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Joseph wrote:
>
>> Why is that when I boot up with FreeBSD 2.2.2 that the kernel gives me this 
>> message:
>> 
>> real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
>> avail memory = 14307328 (13972K bytes)
>> 
>> I have 48 MB of memory on my machine. 
>> 
>> Sincerly
>> 
>> Jim
>> ----------------------------------
>> E-Mail: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
>> Date: 06-Nov-97
>> Time: 09:08:47
>> ------
>> QUOTE OF THE DAY:
>> 
>>        `
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------
>> 

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E-Mail: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
Date: 06-Nov-97
Time: 13:53:42
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"It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name."

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