Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:57:40 -0400 From: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory recongnition problem... Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000516155630.0324de10@msm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200005161949.MAA02913@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 12:39:25 EDT." <4.3.1.2.20000516122849.00cdb150@msm.cl>
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It shows "real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes)", which is what I am
trying to understand... The bios recognizes it as 256M and so did NT (When
that OS was installed).
At 12:49 PM 5/16/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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
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