From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 16:48:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D7737B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e99NnAF28529; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:49:10 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:49:10 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disappearing memory after upgrade In-Reply-To: <20001009154431.A272@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Alex Charalabidis [001009 15:26] wrote: > > > > I just upgraded a machine from 3.3-RC to 3.5-STABLE (cvsuped > > 000929). Since I did this, it can only see 16MB of its 128MB physical > > memory. The box is an old-ish Compaq Deskpro which has never given me > > trouble before. The only changes to the kernel configuration were to > > remove a few useless drivers and add IPF*. Any hints? > > See LINT for configuration directives to hardwire the amount > of ram in the box. > Too obvious. Crossed my mind but I decided it was too easy a solution. After all, we _were_ talking about a compaq, it _had_ to be something perverse. :) MAXMEM did the trick though. Guess this is what happens when you run BSD on hardware meant to run Win@#%$. Morale: If it works, don't reboot, don't upgrade... don't even touch. Thanks -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message