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Date:      Sat, 03 Aug 1996 15:45:48 -0700
From:      Mark Stout <mcs@vpm.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Errors compiling 2.1.5 kernel
Message-ID:  <199608032251.PAA14710@vpm.com>

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At 04:31 PM 8/3/96 -0600, Aaron D. Gifford wrote:

>This exact same error occured when I compiled a 2.1.5 kernel and the cause
>of the problem for me was doing an 'options       "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"' in my
>local config exactly as demonstrated in the LINT config file for the purpose
>of making all 128MB of RAM available on my system.  When I changed it to
>read 'options        "MAXMEM=131072"' instead, the error (of course) went
>away.  It made me wonder why the example in LINT was not a valid working
>example.  This could be the source of your problem too if you used the LINT
>example to increase the available RAM beyond 64MB using the MAXMEM option.
>
>Aaron out.

This was exactly my problem.  I have 32MB and "MAXMEM=(32*1024)" didn't
work, but "MAXMEM=32768" did.

Thanks,
Mark
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