Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:32:26 -0400 From: Marcelo Iturbe <miturbe@msm.cl> To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: going stable... Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000510102216.00b207d0@192.168.1.10> In-Reply-To: <20000510021313.A1879@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl> <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl>
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At 02:13 AM 5/10/00 +0200, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: >On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:21:05AM -0400, Marcelo J. Iturbe wrote: > > Hello, > > When I bought FreeBSD, I thought I was buying a stable version but they > > sent me 3.3-Release (back in December). > >A release is actually a 'snapshot' from the stable branch of FreeBSD >and is certainly 'stable'. Thanks for clearing that up.. >Try to find out first *why* you have problems with 3.3-release. For example: > >- Be sure your hardware is supported (what SCSI controller do you have?). >- What kind of problems do you encounter? Is there an error message that >gives a clue? The SCSI problem I solved last night. I ended up replacing the controler. BUT there is a memory (RAM) problem which persists. When I run top under freebsd I get: Mem: 37M Active, 3848K Inact, 15M Wired, 3424K Cache, 7458K Buf, 532K Free All those numbers add up to 67.262Megs of RAM. this machine has a total of 256Megs of RAM. It also has 768 megs of swap and that is showed in a more friendly manner: Swap: 768M Total, 372M Used, 396M Free, 48% Inuse, 100K In, 128K Out It seems to me that the FreeBSD is not recognizing the total RAM that the machine has. SO, I was trying to download the 3.3-Release kernel source so that I could do as recomended. ( I have no clue who took my 3.3-release CD) "Sounds like its not seeing all of you ram - you will need to set maxmem in the config and recompile it." Any thoughts? Marcelo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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