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Subject: Re: specifying RAM size at boot?
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Daniel Ellard writes:
| I thought this was configurable by setting a variable in
| /boot/loader.conf and rebooting, but I haven't been able to find the
| right variable(s).  (someone suggested MAXMEM, but this doesn'
| seem to do anything at all.)

I think it is
	hw.physmem=<size>

I used it at a prior company.

Doug A.