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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:14:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        Greg Douglass <gmd@apache.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: snd:unable to allocate 65536 bytes of buffer 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403191353.11299K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804032225.OAA07205@implode.root.com>

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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, David Greenman wrote:

> >1 GIGABYTE of RAM!?!?!  Holy cow!  ftp.freebsd.org doesn't even have
> >that much!  Just what are you planning to do with this system anyway?
> 
>    Sure it does - and has for about 6 months now.

I missed the upgrade.  :-)

> >You have bigger problems.  Contact hackers@freebsd.org.  You need some
> >special kernel hacking to keep the kernel memory from going ballistic. 
> >Pester David Greenman especially. 
> 
>    I missed the original message.

TSIA.  I thought kernels >128MB of RAM needed some patching to keep the
kernel from wasting too much memory (or were those changes folded in)?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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