Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:48:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory recongnition problem... Message-ID: <200005162048.NAA03309@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 May 2000 16:37:53 EDT." <4.3.1.2.20000516163659.00e98100@msm.cl>
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> Sorry, I thought I had mentioned the OS version which is 3.3 Try enabling options "VM86" in your kernel. This will use some smarter BIOS routines for finding memory, however I'd strongly recommend updating to 4.0 at your earliest convenience. > 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 > ******************************************* > > -- \\ 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
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