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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:26:09 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Sorin Chiorean <sorin@compar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Increasing memory on a FreeBSD 4.3
Message-ID:  <20030702182609.GB59317@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <005901c340c4$d9816750$0b6fa8c0@sorin>
References:  <005901c340c4$d9816750$0b6fa8c0@sorin>

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In the last episode (Jul 02), Sorin Chiorean said:
> I have increased memory on my FreeBSD from 128 Mb to 384 Mb.
>  
> I have a MAXMEM option in the Kernel configuration file :
> # Machine Information
> machine         "i386"
> cpu             "I686_CPU"
> ident           "test"
> maxusers        32
> options         MAXMEM=""131072"
> 
> How can I avoid to rebuild the kernel and to use all memory ?

Edit /boot/loader.conf and add a line like this:

hw.physmem="384M"

That will override the kernel MAXMEM value.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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