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To: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE>
cc: jd@alumni.cs.uwm.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: real memory = 68091904 (66496K bytes) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 03:00:32 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 19:29:48 -0700
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>> 
>> 	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.

   Actually, that's no longer necessary. There was a bug in the new
autodetection, however, which is why it only found 65MB of RAM. That
problem has been fixed in -current and it should properly detect all
of his memory without any special kernel options.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project