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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