Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:45:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Michael Beckmann <petzi@mail.nacamar.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA: options MAXMEM not working (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970129144312.29578A-100000@becker2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970129192747.6365A-100000@beauty.nacamar.de>
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Hi; This sounds like a variable length problem, such as a variable that is declared as an int but actually needs to be a long int...., thus you might be getting a wrap-around modulo the largest value that the variable can actually hold... just my 0.02.... On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote: > OK, after having built a couple more kernels, I found out that the MAXMEM > option does not work for me when set to over 128 MB. I now run a kernel > that uses only 128 MB, though my machine has 192 MB and will have 256 at > the end of the week. Has this problem been fixed in kernels subsequent to > 2.2-BETA ? I was using 160 MB just fine with FreeBSD 2.1.5. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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