Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:49:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory recongnition problem... Message-ID: <200005161949.MAA02913@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 12:39:25 EDT." <4.3.1.2.20000516122849.00cdb150@msm.cl>
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> Hello, > I sent this message orrinally to "questions" but got no reply.. sorry for > the cross-post... > > I have a compaq server with 256 megs in RAM, so I recompiled GENERIC kernel > with the option "MAXMEM=262144", Once the new kernel was configured I ran a > grep just to make sure. > su-2.03# grep -i maxmem * > config.c:___options \"MAXMEM=262144\" \n\ > opt_maxmem.h:#define MAXMEM 262144 > > I proceeded to compile and install the kernel, The new Kernel boots up just > fine. But when I do a "top" i see the following: > > Mem: 34M Active, 8344K Inact, 11M Wired, 2544K Cache, 7456K Buf, 4188K Free > > 67 Megs of RAM! Why?! This is not indicative of anything. What does the system actually tell you it's using when it boots (look towards the top of the output of 'dmesg')? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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