Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:10:50 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@citrus.infi.net> To: Joe Karthauser <jlk@pavilion.co.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: memory in freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.95.961024150250.881A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199610241743.SAA13613@deputy.pavilion.co.uk>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Joe Karthauser wrote: > Hiya, > > I hope that someone's got the time to help me with this one ;) Sure. It's been a quite day, so far. > I've now bought a pentium 200 pro with 82mb of ram (2 x 32mb in bank0 and > 2 x 8mb in bank 1) which I'm using with the original disks. The machine > runs fine, but the OS only recognises 64 mb of ram! ;( >From /sys/i386/conf/LINT # MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not # specified, FreeBSD will read the amount of memory from the CMOS RAM, # so the amount of memory will be limited to 64MB or 16MB depending on # the BIOS. The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of # RAM, it would be 131072 (128 * 1024). # [snip] options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)" > > I've got 2.1.5 on CD and am tempted to start again with this release. > If I do this will I get the whole 82mb of ram available? Only if you tell the kernel that it's there. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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