Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:39:38 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Ken <kvgu@uswest.net> Cc: Erin Fortenberry <erinf@lusardi.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Only 16MB RAM in a 200MB box Message-ID: <19990726223938.A78277@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net>; from "Ken" on Mon Jul 26 16:37:57 GMT 1999 References: <AFB0749029D0D211AD3900902728125103AA79@MAIL> <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Ken said: > Okay, a bit more info. I've got 3 other boxes, all running 3.2, each > sporting 128 MB RAM, and all using generic 3.2 kernel. So now I need to > compile a custom kernel just to use 200MB? This is FreeBSD- not NT! > > Thanks for your output, btw. I'll delve deeper into this. Are your other 3 boxes all Compaqs? No Compaq I've ever laid hands on (admittedly in the 486 and pentium range) has been able to report more than 16MB; it's some genetic deficency inherited from model to model as far as I can tell. Luckily, setting MAXMEM has always worked on them. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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