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Date:      Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:25:17 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Greg Douglass <gmd@apache.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: snd:unable to allocate 65536 bytes of buffer 
Message-ID:  <199804032225.OAA07205@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Apr 1998 10:41:12 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403103830.10696E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> 

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>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

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