Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 17:07:28 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: Marcelo Iturbe <miturbe@msm.cl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: going stable... Message-ID: <20000510170728.A1168@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000510102216.00b207d0@192.168.1.10>; from miturbe@msm.cl on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:32:26AM -0400 References: <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl> <4.3.1.2.20000509111631.00d0fab0@msm.cl> <20000510021313.A1879@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> <4.3.1.2.20000510102216.00b207d0@192.168.1.10>
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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:32:26AM -0400, Marcelo Iturbe wrote: > > When I run top under freebsd I get: > > Mem: 37M Active, 3848K Inact, 15M Wired, 3424K Cache, 7458K Buf, 532K Free > > All those numbers add up to 67.262Megs of RAM. this machine has a total of > 256Megs of RAM. > It also has 768 megs of swap and that is showed in a more friendly manner: > > Swap: 768M Total, 372M Used, 396M Free, 48% Inuse, 100K In, 128K Out > > It seems to me that the FreeBSD is not recognizing the total RAM that the > machine has. > SO, I was trying to download the 3.3-Release kernel source so that I could > do as recomended. ( I have no clue who took my 3.3-release CD) > > "Sounds like its not seeing all of you ram - you will need to set maxmem in > the config and recompile it." See http://www.nl.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#REALLYBIGRAM which describes the problem that you most probably have. You need to recompile the kernel with the option options "MAXMEM=262144" for 256 MB of RAM. There is an entry in the handbook how to recompile your kernel (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html). If you don't have the CD anymore, you need to download the kernel sources, which is most easily done by using /stand/sysinstall (FTP) and selecting the kernel source there ('post-install configuration of FreeBSD', 'install additional distribution sets', 'sources for everything but encryption', '/usr/src/sys'). Be sure to grab the kernel source version matching your FreeBSD version (3.3-RELEASE). Good luck, Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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