From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 00:20:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA25393 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 00:20:47 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA25387 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 00:20:45 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA03479; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 00:20:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA01568; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 00:21:29 -0700 Message-Id: <199508040721.AAA01568@corbin.Root.COM> To: Cihat Ozhasoglu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Full memory not utilized In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 04 Aug 95 03:12:34 EDT." <199508040712.DAA26341@conciliator.acsu.buffalo.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:21:28 -0700 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have a 486DX2/66 with 20 Meg of RAM but at bootup time FBSD shows 16 >meg, why isn't remaining 4 meg not being "seen?" I have a isa bus >(actually a custom local bus by Compaq). Is there anyway to make FBSD >see the remaining memory? Are there maybe some options that one can >include in KERNEL to achieve this? Sounds like you have a Compaq machine. In -current you can specify options "MAXMEM=20480" and it will use it. In 2.1-stable and previous versions this doesn't work. -DG