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> +--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31,
> | Vince Hoffman proclaimed:
> |
> | Hi all,
> | 	I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro 
> proliant, and its
> | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell
> | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the 
> list about
> | this a while back but my googling hasnt come up with anything. :(
> |
> 
> Yeah, I have a couple old Proliant 5000R's, and this was 
> always a problem 
> for me.  I added this statement to my kernel config to make 
> it detect and 
> use all of the memory:
> 
> options    MAXMEM="(128*1024)"
> 
> In this case, the 128 represents the amount of RAM you have 
> in MB. 

Just the thing.
Thanks very much.