From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 12:57:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surfree.cl (machine66.justicecorp.com [204.254.85.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D344E37BB1A; Tue, 16 May 2000 12:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcelo@msm.cl) Received: from marcelo.msm.cl (unknown [204.254.85.118]) by mail.surfree.cl (Postfix) with SMTP id DEC13EB151; Tue, 16 May 2000 16:01:32 -0400 (CLT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000516155630.0324de10@msm.cl> X-Sender: miturbe@msm.cl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:57:40 -0400 To: Mike Smith From: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" Subject: Re: Memory recongnition problem... Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200005161949.MAA02913@mass.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It shows "real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)", which is what I am trying to understand... The bios recognizes it as 256M and so did NT (When that OS was installed). At 12:49 PM 5/16/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > I sent this message orrinally to "questions" but got no reply.. sorry for > > the cross-post... > > > > I have a compaq server with 256 megs in RAM, so I recompiled GENERIC > kernel > > with the option "MAXMEM=262144", Once the new kernel was configured I > ran a > > grep just to make sure. > > su-2.03# grep -i maxmem * > > config.c:___options \"MAXMEM=262144\" \n\ > > opt_maxmem.h:#define MAXMEM 262144 > > > > I proceeded to compile and install the kernel, The new Kernel boots up > just > > fine. But when I do a "top" i see the following: > > > > Mem: 34M Active, 8344K Inact, 11M Wired, 2544K Cache, 7456K Buf, 4188K Free > > > > 67 Megs of RAM! Why?! > >This is not indicative of anything. What does the system actually tell >you it's using when it boots (look towards the top of the output of >'dmesg')? > >-- >\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith >\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com *********************************************** ICQ 22921676 MSM Interactive. El Bosque Norte 0134, Las Condes, Chile. Phone: (56-2) 234-9852 Fax: (56-2) 233-8912 Email: marcelo@msm.cl http://www.msm.cl ******************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message