From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 11:39:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28388 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:39:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rain.futuresouth.com (rain.futuresouth.com [198.79.79.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28373 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:39:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stormy@rain.futuresouth.com) Received: (from stormy@localhost) by rain.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04416 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:39:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stormy) Message-ID: <19981013133900.A4326@futuresouth.com> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:39:00 -0500 From: Stormy Henderson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC mag ref (good and bad) to FreeBSD Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <015d01bdf6d2$6d25a2b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <015d01bdf6d2$6d25a2b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>; from Alain G. Fabry on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:53:46PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A happy camper (Alain G. Fabry, fabry@panam.edu) once wrote... > >saturated, so adding RAM wouldn't help any. Second, do you think the > >folks at PC Mag recompiled their kernel to utilize more than 64MB of RAM? > Just wondering with this statement. I have just added 64MB to my starting > 64MB of RAM, and I haven't made any changes to the kernel. > Do I need to recompile the kernel, if so, what/where do I need to > change/add? It depends on your hardware whether or not it detects more than 64MB of RAM. Based on the frequency of this question, I don't think it ever notices more than 64MB. (c; Run dmesg and see how much ram it detected (64MB in this case): real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) avail memory = 63782912 (62288K bytes) If it doesn't see all yours, edit your kernel config file (read the handbook if you've never messed with kernels before) and specify the amount of RAM you have (128MB in this example): options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)" Then recompile (again, read the handbook). Be happy... -- http://www.futuresouth.com/~stormy/signature.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message