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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 1997 17:11:07 +0000
From:      "Riley J. McIntire" <chaos@train.tgci.com>
To:        Richard Laxton <richard@real.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: large number of file handles open
Message-ID:  <199706160010.RAA07571@train.tgci.com>

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> From:          jivko@ijs.com
> At 06:45 AM 6/16/97 +1000, Richard Laxton wrote:
[snip]

> On another topic: Have any of you had any problems running FreeBSD on a
> COMPAQ machine (P133)? I discovered yesterday that FreeBSD 2.1. would not
> read the memory size properly and would use only 16MB on a COMPAQ machine
> with 72MB. Recompiling the kernel with the memory size took care of the
> problem, but I was wondering if it is just me or a typical problem with
> COMPAQ.
> 
> Jivko
> Regards,
> 
> Jivko Koltchev
 

I don't have any hands on experience with fbsd/compaq but do recall 
a similar problem on a Compaq with, I think, 32 MB ram.  

Additionally, doesn't any fbsd machine require a recompile for >64 
MB?

Cheers,

Riley
 



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