Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:48:14 -0400 From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <optix@nyc.rr.com> To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why is my machine only using 64MB of RAM? Message-ID: <009801c0c439$885621e0$01000001@darkstar> References: <008501c0c436$adea85c0$01000001@darkstar> <3AD72A02.3D6CD329@dccnet.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin, I really appreciate it. Thanks. - -- Jonathan M. Slivko ~~~~ Jonathan M. Slivko <optix@nyc.rr.com> Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Services IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network Pager: (917) 388-5304 Website: http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/ (PGP Key @ http://home.nyc.rr.com/optix/jslivko.asc) ~~~~ - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@dccnet.com> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <optix@nyc.rr.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Why is my machine only using 64MB of RAM? > > "Jonathan M. Slivko" wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I have a Dell Dimension XPS T500 which I had installed FreeBSD > > 4.2-RELEASE on (from the ISO) and on system bootup, dmesg reports > > that there is only 65MB of RAM available to the system. However, > > this is not the case. This machine has 2 sticks, each of 128MB of > > RAM for a total of 256MB. However, when the machine is in > > Windows, all 256MB of RAM is detected and used and everything is > > working fine. I have since deinstalled FreeBSD from my system and > > am now currently running Windows, trying to figure all of this > > out. Any insight would be appreciated, as I want to get back to > > using FreeBSD as soon as possible. > > It is explained in /sys/i386/conf/LINT as this <4.3-RC FreeBSD>. > < snip > > # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not > # specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the > CMOS # RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to > 64MB or 16MB # depending on the BIOS. If the BIOS reports 64MB, a > memory probe will # then attempt to detect the installed amount of > RAM. If this probe # fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to > use the MAXMEM option. # The amount is in kilobytes, so for a > machine with 128MB of RAM, it would # be 131072 (128 * 1024). > < snip > > options MAXMEM="(128*1024)" > < snip > > > So compile your kernel, including the amount of memory that you > have installed and it will use the entire amount of installed RAM. > > > -- > Regards, | Any and all errors in spelling are > the > | intellectual property of the > author and Kevin G. Eliuk <kg@dccnet.com> | are therefore governed > by the copyright > | laws of the jurisdiction in which > they (604) 886-4040 | are received. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOtctyz4aolq8K4tFEQIznwCgreSN+dTuOsmFu43EdJUB3sLMYvwAoJV5 A1h5AQvN8Q0lzQRraxUJxTwq =AFuh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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