From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 25 19:22:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0926014C59 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p6.a8.du.radix.net (p6.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.134]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA10025; Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:22:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:22:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Zheng Bokui Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Memory In-Reply-To: <3724AD8C.613F39F6@sin.photronics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Read the FAQ. you need to rebuild your kernel with MAXMEM. Or you can just read LINT if you know what you're doing. Good Luck! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Zheng Bokui wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to freebsd and just installed FreeBSD 3.1-stable in my old > Compaq prolinea 5100e PC (Pentium/100 CPU, 32MB RAM and 2.5GB HDD). But > the machine seems only use 16MB RAM. Here is part of the output from > dmesg: > real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) > avail memory = 13307904 (12996K bytes) > > What's going wrong here? How can I use all the 32MB RAM? > > TIA, > Bokui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message