From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 14:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA27305 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA27295 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:47:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from becker2.u.washington.edu by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0vpims-000907C; Wed, 29 Jan 97 14:47 PST Received: from localhost (spaz@localhost) by becker2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW96.12) with SMTP id OAA26572; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:45:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 14:45:40 -0800 (PST) From: John Utz To: Michael Beckmann cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA: options MAXMEM not working (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi; This sounds like a variable length problem, such as a variable that is declared as an int but actually needs to be a long int...., thus you might be getting a wrap-around modulo the largest value that the variable can actually hold... just my 0.02.... On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Michael Beckmann wrote: > OK, after having built a couple more kernels, I found out that the MAXMEM > option does not work for me when set to over 128 MB. I now run a kernel > that uses only 128 MB, though my machine has 192 MB and will have 256 at > the end of the week. Has this problem been fixed in kernels subsequent to > 2.2-BETA ? I was using 160 MB just fine with FreeBSD 2.1.5. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life