From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 12:10:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA15147 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (h-adjourn.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA15136 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id PAA00912; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:10:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:10:50 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Joe Karthauser cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: memory in freebsd In-Reply-To: <199610241743.SAA13613@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------