From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 16:47:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.aei.ca (unknown [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6659D10EED for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-174.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.174]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15336; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:46:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36CA1122.CCDA4A5E@aei.ca> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:45:22 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Samer, Michael, IN" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-Mail)" Subject: Re: Swapping is killing me! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off - Cartman, South Park] [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message