From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Nov 27 03:16:57 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09260
          for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:16:57 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from root.com (root.com [198.145.90.17])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09255
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:16:55 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from root@root.com)
Received: from root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA00251;
	Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:17:47 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199811271117.DAA00251@root.com>
To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
cc: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@sunet.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 1GB Memory? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:53:03 PST."
             <19981127025303.36309@orbit.flnet.com> 
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Reply-To: dg@root.com
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:17:46 -0800
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

>On the subject of Re: 1GB Memory?, Mats Dufberg stated:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Charles Henrich wrote:
>> 
>> > I have just recently installed a system with 1GB of memory, however
>> > datasize max is still only 512mb.  Anyone know where I can find and bash
>> > this to make it utilize the entire 1GB?  Thanks!
>> 
>> There is a kernel setting to tell the OS memory size in case it gets an
>> incorrect value from the BIOS. You will find information about the kernel in
>> the handbook.
>
>D'oh!  I knew those were there... I've been ignoring them out of habit since
>FreeBSD 3.0 now correctly probes memory size...  Apparently the default probe
>doesnt set the max datasize to the max value however.  Thanks for pointing
>this out -- I think its time for bed now :)

   Uh, the maximum datasize is a per-process limit on virtual memory and has
nothing to do with the amount of physical memory in the machine.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message