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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:45:22 -0500
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        "Samer, Michael, IN" <Michael.Samer@Ingolstadt.BERTRANDT.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Swapping is killing me!
Message-ID:  <36CA1122.CCDA4A5E@aei.ca>
References:  <DE7D44483D7ED211BF3300A0C93B22770C7ABA@in_sv_off>

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"Samer, Michael, IN" wrote:
> 
> hi there!
> I have an urgent question: I have 256MB in my system and the Kernel just
> recognizes 16MB (I know a limit in PC-architectur). How can i manually make
> him see all (like "add mem" in Netware or "ram=256m" as a kernel startup in
> Linux)? Could U please help me. Swapping is killing me!
> Greetings and thanks in advance
> 
> Sam
> 
> Michael Samer, DV-Support Bertrandt GmbH IN
> sam.vanratt@gmx.net
> or
> michael.samer@ingolstadt.bertrandt.com
> 
> Michael Samer, DV-Support Bertrandt GmbH IN
$ more /sys/i386/conf/LINT
...search for "MAXMEM"...
# MAXMEM specifies the amount of RAM on the machine; if this is not
# specified, FreeBSD will first read the amount of memory from the CMOS
# RAM, so the amount of memory will initially be limited to 64MB or 16MB
# depending on the BIOS.  If the BIOS reports 64MB, a memory probe will
# then attempt to detect the installed amount of RAM.  If this probe
# fails to detect >64MB RAM you will have to use the MAXMEM option.
# The amount is in kilobytes, so for a machine with 128MB of RAM, it
would
# be 131072 (128 * 1024).

Add that to your kernel and recompile it:
options         "MAXMEM=(256*1024)"
Cya
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