Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 22:04:39 -0500 (EST) From: Aniruddha Bohra <bohra@cs.rutgers.edu> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Options MAXMEM added to GENERIC kernel config causes kernelpanicin -current Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0301272202030.23004-100000@monday.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: <3E35C6B7.65CDA944@mindspring.com>
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Hi I agree here with Terry. It is immense help to be able to set MAXMEM to something less to study the behaviour of the system under memory pressure for one. It is also helpful to keep the size of the crash dumps small Aniruddha On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option? > > > > > > > > > > I don't know. I've always used MAXMEM. Guess it's > > > > > time to remove it from my kernel config file. > > > > > > > > FWIW, I've been using FBSD -stable and -current for about 3 years > > > > on five different machines and I've never used MAXMEM. Never had > > > > any problems recognizing memory, either -- guess I've been luckier > > > > than some. > > > > > > MAXMEM is useful for testing configurations with less memory, > > > without having to open up your box and yank SIMMs, or to have > > > a bunch of different sized pairs of SIMMs lying around. > > > > I thought the original purpose atleast in FreeBSD 2.x and earlier > > was so the kernel can recognize more than 64 megs of physical ram. > > If you guys are planning on yanking it from config files and > the source code, you should at least be aware that there is > more than one use for it, one which is not tied to using old > motherboards. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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