From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 7:37:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surfree.cl (machine66.justicecorp.com [204.254.85.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2681937B7BE for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 07:37:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from miturbe@msm.cl) Received: from msm (unknown [204.254.85.114]) by mail.surfree.cl (Postfix) with SMTP id 86CD0EB14A for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 10:37:00 -0400 (CLT) Received: from marcelo.msm [192.168.1.1] by msm [127.0.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.8.5.0.R) for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 10:33:21 -0400 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000510102216.00b207d0@192.168.1.10> X-Sender: miturbe@192.168.1.10 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:32:26 -0400 To: K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl, questions@freebsd.org From: Marcelo Iturbe Subject: Re: going stable... 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: miturbe@msm.cl Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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