Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:37:53 -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: <4.3.1.2.20000516163659.00e98100@msm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200005162006.NAA03041@mass.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 15:57:40 EDT." <4.3.1.2.20000516155630.0324de10@msm.cl>
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Sorry, I thought I had mentioned the OS version which is 3.3 At 01:06 PM 5/16/00 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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). > >Ok. So now you can tell us which OS version you are running, and if it's >4.0 or later, hook up a serial console and get us the memory map that's >printed in 'verbose' boot mode. It sounds like your system may have a >memory hole at the 64M mark, which will cause memory above that point to >fail to be detected in pre-4.0 systems. > > > > > 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 > > > > > > *********************************************** > > ICQ 22921676 > > MSM Interactive. > > El Bosque Norte 0134, Las Condes, Chile. > > Phone: (56-2) 234-9852 Fax: (56-2) 233-8912 > > Email: marcelo@msm.cl http://www.msm.cl > > ******************************************* > > > > > >-- >\\ 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 *********************************************** ICQ 22921676 MSM Interactive. El Bosque Norte 0134, Las Condes, Chile. Phone: (56-2) 234-9852 Fax: (56-2) 233-8912 Email: marcelo@msm.cl http://www.msm.cl ******************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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