From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 11 13:15:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15914 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bbs.dcoisp.net (bbs.dcoisp.net [208.128.192.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA15896 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:14:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net) From: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Received: from MHS by bbs.dcoisp.net with MHS id ANBAAKED ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:16:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 13:16:10 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Memory and kernel question. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello to all. I am running freebsd 2.2.5. I have recently upgraded my freebsd box from 32 megs of ram to 128 megs of ram. The first time the 2.2.5 GENERIC kernel saw the new memory, the memory was reported correctly. I thought I was on easy street then. After halting the system and rebooting the machine, the kernel only reported about 100 megs of ram and only had about 94 megs availible. I am not sure what happened between the initial detection and the halting rebooting to cause the kernel to see less ram. I next went to the freebsd mailing list archives and did some searching to see if I could find anything related. There was a message from June of this year that talked about building a kernel with option MEMSIZE equal to the amount of ram he had in his machine. Oh great. Time to build a new kernel? :) After reading the handbook and looking at /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, I realized that option MEMSIZE is not there! :) So. My assumption is that it is no longer needed and freebsd determines this on its' own. So. What would cause ram to be reported correctly on one attempt, and be miss reported the next time? I have tried rebooting several times, with the same effect now, still only 94 megs avail. Any assistance or pointers would be greatly appreciated. BTW. I will send log files if needbe, just didn't want to clutter up the list if something was simply fixed. Thanks. Jeremy