From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 01:53:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09955 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09950 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.27]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA66F1; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:53:10 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36526E96.E57D7314@energex.com.au> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:57:40 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: David de Jong Subject: RE: Memory Limits with Compaq Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Nov-98 David de Jong wrote: > I have a compaq Armada 1598DT which I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on. The > machine has been loaded with 98M of memory. How old is the box? > Unfortunately,the kernel will not recognise the full extent of the > memory on this PC. Evidence for this is the high swap rate, top reports > a low memory inactive level, the info from the boot record (obtained > from dmesg) is as follows:- > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14680064 (14336K bytes) Ick! That's 16 MB... > I have compiled the kernel with the line "options MAXMEM=(98*1024)" > included with no success. Mayhaps yer dealing with a BIOS limit, although I doubt it... Have ye tried checking yer BIOS just to be sure? --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message