From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 1 10:26: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B62F37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tele-kom.ru (tele-kom.ru [81.22.2.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BD8A43EC5 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doublef@tele-kom.ru) Received: (qmail 21125 invoked by uid 0); 1 Jan 2003 18:25:59 -0000 Date: 1 Jan 2003 18:25:59 -0000 Message-ID: <20030101182559.21124.qmail@mail.tele-kom.ru> Received: from (HELO ) (81.22.3.209) by tele-kom.ru with ESMTP id 21121-1041445559-10 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed Jan 1 18:25:59 2003 0000 From: DoubleF To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting core usage Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Recently, many of you wrote something like: > > How do I stop my kernel from using a piece of core? I mean, > > if I have 32MB of memory, how do i make it to use only the > > low 16,for instance (not removing the chips themselves,though)? > > I think setting MAXMEM in your kernel config file as follows will do what > you want. Thank you all. I guess will solve the problem with mi_switch etc. The >16M chips appear to be buggy. I must admit that a small DOS program of mine informed me about that possibility, but I trusted all those Norton Utilities etc. which told me everything was ok (and buggy core doesn't seem to add bugs to Windows, for an obvious reason;), and assumed that core was healthy. The moral is: proprietary utilities suck; one should do everything by himself. Happy New Year, DoubleF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message