Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:39:00 -0500 From: Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC mag ref (good and bad) to FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981013133900.A4326@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <015d01bdf6d2$6d25a2b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>; from Alain G. Fabry on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:53:46PM -0500 References: <015d01bdf6d2$6d25a2b0$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org>
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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...
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