Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:50:04 +0100 From: Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com> To: "'michael@gargantuan.com'" <michael@gargantuan.com>, Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Old proliant memory detection Message-ID: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BDFC1@EX-LONDON>
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> +--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, > | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: > | > | Hi all, > | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro > proliant, and its > | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell > | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the > list about > | this a while back but my googling hasnt come up with anything. :( > | > > Yeah, I have a couple old Proliant 5000R's, and this was > always a problem > for me. I added this statement to my kernel config to make > it detect and > use all of the memory: > > options MAXMEM="(128*1024)" > > In this case, the 128 represents the amount of RAM you have > in MB. Just the thing. Thanks very much.
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