Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:27:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do about limited caching on 430FX chipset (?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713142626.25570z-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <4074.900358099@monkeys.com>
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Is there any way, short of removing 64MB of memory from this system, that > I can convince the FreeBSD kernel to avoid allocating space for programs > and data in the upper 64MB on this system if it can be avoided? I mean > ideally, that upper 64MB would be used only for stuff like the disk buffer > cache and perhaps other not-too-time-sensitive stuff... unless of course > the kernel really has no other choice but to use that for programs and > associated data (because it has run out of run for such stuff in the lower > 64MB). You can try using the MAXMEM option to your kernel to define the maximum amount of memory the system is to use as 64MB, but then your other 64MB of RAM sits rotting. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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