From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 12:00:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA08653 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:00:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from kosh.phoenix.net (dial62.phoenix.net [205.241.121.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08621 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@kosh.phoenix.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by kosh.phoenix.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00682; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 13:57:41 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 13:53:42 -0000 (GMT) From: Jim Joseph To: Steve Hovey Subject: Re: Memory allocation Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yeah the RAM rolls up to 48 MB. I solved the problem. I was still using the generic kernel andI did not realize that I needed the MAXMEM line in the kernel. Thanks for the quick reply though. Now my hard drive is not getting butchered just by running Netscape :-) Jim On 06-Nov-97 Steve Hovey wrote: > >You sure? I mean you see it do the ram roll up to the whole 48MB? Im >thinking maybe one of the upper simms is bad. > >On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Jim Joseph wrote: > >> Why is that when I boot up with FreeBSD 2.2.2 that the kernel gives me this >> message: >> >> real memory = 16777216 (16384K bytes) >> avail memory = 14307328 (13972K bytes) >> >> I have 48 MB of memory on my machine. >> >> Sincerly >> >> Jim >> ---------------------------------- >> E-Mail: Jim Joseph >> Date: 06-Nov-97 >> Time: 09:08:47 >> ------ >> QUOTE OF THE DAY: >> >> ` >> >> >> ---------------------------------- >> ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Jim Joseph Date: 06-Nov-97 Time: 13:53:42 ------ "It's men like him that give the Y chromosome a bad name." ----------------------------------