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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:21:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Zach Heilig <zach@blizzard.gaffaneys.com>
Cc:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@cheese.westminster.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RAM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970306112110.2046R-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <87sp291jyj.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com>

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On 6 Mar 1997, Zach Heilig wrote:

> 4, Some motherboards BIOS only report up to 16 Meg (all the rest
> seem to have a limit of 64 Meg).  Try setting the "MAXMEM" config
> variable (see /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for details).  I heard a
> rumor you could also set it from the user kernel config (use the -c
> option on boot), but I've never actually tried that.

MAXMEM is set to 64mb by default.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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