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To: Cihat Ozhasoglu <ozhas-c@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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Subject: Re: Full memory not utilized 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:21:28 -0700
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>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