From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 19 03:13:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:13:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15660 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:13:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zgS0Q-0001wn-00; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:12:10 +0200 Message-ID: <19981119131209.C7455@cityip.co.za> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:12:09 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: David de Jong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Limits with Compaq References: <36526E96.E57D7314@energex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36526E96.E57D7314@energex.com.au>; from David de Jong on Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 04:52:07PM +1000 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 at 16:52 SAST, David de Jong wrote: > > I have a compaq Armada 1598DT which I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on. The > machine has been loaded with 98M of memory. > > Unfortunately,the kernel will not recognise the full extent of the > memory on this PC. Evidence for this is the high swap rate, top reports > a low memory inactive level, the info from the boot record (obtained > from dmesg) is as follows:- > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 14680064 (14336K bytes) In addition to all the other suggestions, I can only offer this: Some of the older Compaqs had the notorious "memory hole" at 16MB. You should be able to switch this off in the BIOS - you might need to use the DOS-based software you get with the machine to do so. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message