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From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Jim Joseph <jcj@mail.phoenix.net>
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Subject: Re: Memory allocation
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On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Joseph wrote:

> 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.

I thought that only had to be done for ram sizes over 64MB


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