From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 5 1:38:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from viking.sophos.com (viking.sophos.com [194.203.134.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6749637B403 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 01:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trafalgar.sophos.com (trafalgar.sophos.com [194.203.134.158]) by viking.sophos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D489D1D16B for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:37:45 +0100 (BST) Received: by trafalgar.sophos.com (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 73FF37C05; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:38:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:38:28 +0100 From: George Cox To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is the MAXMEM kernel option still needed these days? Message-ID: <20010905093828.A8105@trafalgar.sophos.com> References: <20010902190708.B45089@rand.tgd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010902190708.B45089@rand.tgd.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE (i386) X-Nethack: You feel like someone is making a pointless Nethack reference.--More-- X-Y-Z: Now I know my ABCs, won't you sing along with me? X-Subliminal-Channel: Fnord Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02/09 19:07, Sean Chittenden wrote: > I was just cruising through a kernel config and noticed the > MAXMEM directive being used. Is this still required/recommended these > days? -sc > > options MAXMEM=131072 Possibly on some Compaq hardware; at least, that's the only hardware on which I've hadd occasion to use it -- the machine would only detect 64M of the 256M which was installed. best; gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message