From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 13:25:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429C414BDE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:25:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA44138; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:25:15 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:25:15 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ben Smithurst Cc: youlgok@attglobal.net, FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: HELP: Memory Message-ID: <19991218152515.A43993@dan.emsphone.com> References: <385AD2E4.305599E9@attglobal.net> <19991217183141.A28849@dan.emsphone.com> <385AD805.7AB49248@attglobal.net> <19991217184242.A29038@dan.emsphone.com> <385ADCB1.AB73CB1D@attglobal.net> <19991217193457.A29895@dan.emsphone.com> <19991218112400.B825@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991218112400.B825@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from "Ben Smithurst" on Sat Dec 18 11:24:00 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 18), Ben Smithurst said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Dec 17), youlgok@attglobal.net said: > >> Dan Nelson wrote: > >>> edit (or create) /etc/loader.conf, add the line > > Are you sure you didn't mean /boot/loader.conf ? That's what `man > loader.conf' would appear to suggest. Duh. You're right :) /boot/loader.conf is the correct filename. And if you still want to try the kernel option, it's "MAXMEM=49152". The documentation is wrong; it should really read: options "MAXMEM=" Where is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd want to use 131072. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message