From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 21 7:26: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.ritc.co.uk (cartman.ritc.co.uk [193.115.249.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB71437B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by cartman.ritc.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA22537 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:25:01 +0100 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:24:56 +0100 (BST) From: To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Memory detection problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I'm having some problems with FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, and I was hoping somebody could help me. The machine has had the same amount of memory (32Mb), and the same kernel installed since April 4th, but in that time it has reported many different memory sizes: Apr 4 13:21:39 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) May 15 23:40:32 kenny /kernel: real memory = 31457280 (30720K bytes) May 18 06:23:30 kenny /kernel: real memory = 20316160 (19840K bytes) May 18 13:02:25 kenny /kernel: real memory = 17104896 (16704K bytes) May 18 13:16:12 kenny /kernel: real memory = 17203200 (16800K bytes) May 18 19:53:19 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16875520 (16480K bytes) May 18 19:57:40 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Jun 4 00:36:42 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Jun 9 09:18:47 kenny /kernel: real memory = 31457280 (30720K bytes) Jun 11 12:58:15 kenny /kernel: real memory = 21561344 (21056K bytes) Jun 11 20:50:25 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16908288 (16512K bytes) Jun 29 13:55:16 kenny /kernel: real memory = 31457280 (30720K bytes) Jun 29 13:58:44 kenny /kernel: real memory = 31457280 (30720K bytes) Jul 1 14:23:26 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Sep 20 17:22:07 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Sep 21 10:10:04 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) The machine is running very slowly right now, and constantly swapping, with a 16Mb squid process in memory. The "active" memory shown by "top" never goes over 8216K. I believe this is because it has only detected 16 Mb of memory, but I have no idea why. I looked into forcing the kernel's memory detection in the kernel config file, but without success so far. If anyone can help me, I would really appreciate it. Last boot: Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #2: Tue Apr 4 12:27:16 BST 2000 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: root@kenny.ritc.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNY Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX (262.50-MHz 686-class CPU) Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Origin = "CyrixInstead" Id = 0x601 Stepping = 1 DIR=0x1454 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Features=0x80a135 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: real memory = 16842752 (16448K bytes) Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: avail memory = 13901824 (13576K bytes) Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02b0000. Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: chip0: rev 0x02 on pci0.0.0 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: ide_pci0: rev 0xd0 int a irq 14 on pci0.0.1 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: chip1: rev 0xb3 on pci0.1.0 Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: vga0: rev 0x00 on pci0.2.0 ... Sep 21 09:33:26 kenny /kernel: vga1: rev 0xa2 int a irq 11 on pci1.0.0 ... uname -a: FreeBSD kenny.ritc.co.uk 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #2: Tue Apr 4 12:27:16 BST 2000 root@kenny.ritc.co.uk:/usr/src/sys/compile/KENNY i386 Thank you kindly for any help you can give me =) Cheers, Chris. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message