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Date:      29 Sep 2003 09:24:28 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Limiting Memory at boot time
Message-ID:  <44oex3ohgz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309290917000.19353@bitch.localdomain>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309290917000.19353@bitch.localdomain>

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Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> writes:

> I've got a machine with 1 GB of ram but would like to temporarily limit it
> to 512Mb. Is there anyway I can do this from the boot loader or will I
> have to remove the RAM physically?

You should be able to just set hw.physmem from the loader, I think.
That's equivalent to setting MAXMEM in the kernel configuration.



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