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Date:      Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:21:31 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: incorrect memort amount reported? 
Message-ID:  <200107170121.f6H1LWN01020@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 14:25:09 PDT." <20010716212509.4613.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> 

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You're totally misunderstanding what the various numbers mean.  Nothing 
is wrong, and no "fix" is required.

> awesome.  I'll give it a try.  Thanks Tony.
> 
> SO, this :  384*1024
> tells the kernel that the physical memory is between
> 384 and 1024M?
> 
> Abe
> --- Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net> wrote:
> > 
> > You can make sure all your memory gets used by
> > providing a hint to the
> > kernel.  Add the line:
> > 
> > options		MAXMEM="(384*1024)"
> > 
> > to your kernel config, and re-compile the kernel.  
> > 
> > 
> > abram olson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have 384M of physical memory.
> > > 
> > > After I updated to 4.3-stable gkrellm reports only
> > 326
> > > although dmesg reports:
> > > real memory  = 402571264 (393136K bytes)
> > > avail memory = 387108864 (378036K bytes)
> > > 
> > > I understand that this may be a problem with
> > gkrellm
> > > but it reported ther correct amount of memory
> > previous
> > > to my updating to 4.3-stable.
> > > 
> > > I'm a newbie what can I say?
> > > 
> > > Abe
> > > 
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