From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 23 08:04:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09658 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:04:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netjava.com (Espresso.NetJava.net [204.253.66.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA09651 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:04:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jayb@netjava.com) Received: from ssuply.arn.net (ssuply.arn.net [204.177.232.173]) by netjava.com (NTMail 3.02.13) with ESMTP id oa330864 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:18:54 -0600 Message-ID: <3516890D.1C25FB46@netjava.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:08:45 -0600 From: Jay Bratcher X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.32 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Dillon Subject: Re: FreeBSD can't find 32M of my 48M without help References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/extended software support wrote: > > > 2) By default, the kernel only reports I have 16M, when in fact I have 48M. > > Windows 95 does see the entire 48M, and FreeBSD will see all 48M if I > > explicitly tell it in the configuration file via MAXMEM. > > > > I didn't think the MAXMEM was required for under 64M. > > > > Machine is a Compaq P/166. > > Of the few Compaq machines that I have installed FreeBSD on, RAM over 16MB > was never recognized and had to be explicitly set with MAXMEM in the > kernel. Incidentally, this is not unique to FreeBSD - Linux suffers from the same problem, at least on the DeskPro 2000 series... Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message