From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Oct 7 18:58:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA08830 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:58:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA08825 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:58:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id DAA01120; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 03:00:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199710080100.DAA01120@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: real memory = 68091904 (66496K bytes) In-Reply-To: <199710072349.QAA06310@slip129-37-223-171.ca.us.ibm.net> from Joe Davida at "Oct 7, 97 04:49:35 pm" To: jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 03:00:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I have a pentium (P5) 200 MHz system, with 128 meg of edo > ram installed. The motherboard has the TX chipset, which > allows only the first 64 meg to be cache'able. > > Why does unix only find 64 meg of ram? I guess this belongs to the FreeBSD-questions list instead, because it's not a bug. You have to set options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)" in your kernel configurtion file. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT for more info about MAXMEM. Wolfgang