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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Sorin Chiorean <sorin@compar.com>
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:07:50PM -0400, Sorin Chiorean wrote:
> I have increased memory on my FreeBSD from 128 Mb to 384 Mb.
> =20
> I have a MAXMEM option in the Kernel configuration file :
> # Machine Information
> machine         "i386"
> cpu             "I686_CPU"
> ident           "test"
> maxusers        32
> options         MAXMEM=3D""131072"
>=20
>=20
> How can I avoid to rebuild the kernel and to use all memory ?

I don't believe you can - typically you don't need to hardcode MAXMEM
in the kernel configuration anyway, because FreeBSD will autodetect.

kris


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