Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:20:39 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, joe@via.net, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't put 512MB ram in box ... Extended memory question. Message-ID: <199704231820.LAA29412@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704230411.SAA01625@caliban.dihelix.com> from "David Langford" at Apr 22, 97 06:11:11 pm
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> Is it my imagination or doesnt BSDI handle this fairly automagically? Yeah. The use the standard BIOS calls to get the size, then they don't override it with CMOS size later on like FreeBSD does. > Also what are the consequences of setting MAXMEM to a high number > even on low memory machine. Depends on the machine. It won't be good when the kernel tries to allocate pages in non-existant chips, no matter what. Many machines mirror; some just reboot. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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