Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 03:29:57 +0100 From: Michael Beckmann <petzi@apfel.de> To: Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no>, petzi@mail.nacamar.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA: options MAXMEM not working (fwd) Message-ID: <v03010d00af1859d2d3ea@[195.52.251.6]> In-Reply-To: <199701292132.WAA21498@pat.idt.unit.no> References: Your message of "Wed, 29 Jan 1997 19:36:58 %2B0100 (MET)" <Pine.LNX.3.93.970129192747.6365A-100000@beauty.nacamar.de>
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At 22:32 Uhr +0100 29.1.1997, Tor Egge wrote: >> OK, after having built a couple more kernels, I found out that the MAXMEM >> option does not work for me when set to over 128 MB. I now run a kernel >> that uses only 128 MB, though my machine has 192 MB and will have 256 at >> the end of the week. Has this problem been fixed in kernels subsequent to >> 2.2-BETA ? I was using 160 MB just fine with FreeBSD 2.1.5. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael > >Is bounce buffer support disabled ? It uses some kernel virtual address space. It was enabled, I disabled it now. >If that does not help, you may want to look at PR kern/1880. I applied your patches. The kernel now recognises all the RAM. I cannot say which of the two changes helped, however, as I made the changes at once :-) Cheers, Michael
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