Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 03:17:46 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@sunet.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1GB Memory? Message-ID: <199811271117.DAA00251@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:53:03 PST." <19981127025303.36309@orbit.flnet.com>
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>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
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