From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 28 15:44:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20742 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20728 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 15:44:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07269; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:43:10 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:43:10 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Brian Tiemann cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of intermediate-bie questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote: > Question one: I've compiled my kernel with MAXMEM=130048 to > account for the fact that when I put the new server online, it'll have > 128MB of physical RAM. However, the machine is a replacement for an older > one, and the RAM is in the old one (I'm borrowing 64MB at the moment to > set it up.) Will the kernel-configged ~128MB RAM limit cause a problem if > I boot it on a machine with only 64MB? The server is actually doing stuff > right now, so I'm not willing to reboot and just find out, unless I really > need to. >From 2.2.6-RELEASE onwards, my understanding is that the MAXMEM line is no longer needed; so you really shouldn't have any problems.. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message