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From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
To: Ulf Schmidt <us@pop.de>
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Subject: Re: only 16 MB under freeBSD - again
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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Ulf Schmidt wrote:

> I still have the problem that my PC only uses 16 MB of memory out of the 32
> installed. I have a COMPAQ M model w/ EISA including an Adaptec 1740 SCSI

Put options "maxmem=<mem size>" in your kernel and re-compile.

i.e. for 32mb ram, you put in options "maxmem=32768"
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