From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 14:26:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA18404 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:26:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA18258 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA07205; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:25:17 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199804032225.OAA07205@implode.root.com> To: Doug White cc: Greg Douglass , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: snd:unable to allocate 65536 bytes of buffer In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 10:41:12 PST." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:25:17 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Greg Douglass wrote: > >> I am installing 2.2.5 on a system. It has a Pentium II 300MHz, 1 >> GB RAM, Tyan Tiger mainboard, Matrox Millenium II AGP, and a >> SoundBlaster 16. >> I had to remove 3 of the DIMMs until I could compile a kernel >> with the BOUNCE_BUFFERS option removed. Once this was done I was able to >> boot with all of the DIMMs installed. However, I am now getting the >> following message: > >1 GIGABYTE of RAM!?!?! Holy cow! ftp.freebsd.org doesn't even have >that much! Just what are you planning to do with this system anyway? Sure it does - and has for about 6 months now. >You have bigger problems. Contact hackers@freebsd.org. You need some >special kernel hacking to keep the kernel memory from going ballistic. >Pester David Greenman especially. I missed the original message. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message