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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!bubba.ucc.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!ankh.iia.org!rashid From: rashid@ios.com (Rashid Karimov) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 PCI 128MB RAM and Free20 - only 64M are used ??? Date: 1 Feb 1995 19:39:30 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 57 Message-ID: <3goo1i$pm8@ankh.iia.org> References: <3glq0g$6o5@ankh.iia.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: thanatos.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Update :) Rashid Karimov (rashid@ios.com) wrote: : Hi folx,. : well , the system ( PC) itself recognises all the memory , but when : kernel starts - it shows only 64 , as well as "top" later ... : This is Gateway 2000 PCI P90 with Bustec 946C SCSI and Diamond : Stealth Pro 2MB. recognises means that the PC tests the memory right after start. But BISO setup shows only 64M and you can't change it to approriate value :( ( there are not enough space in the field ). Gateway tech supports bounced me to their BBS - obvioulsy they are very proud of it ... There is nothing about it. Well, i tried to do some surgery on the kernel - patching the code which gets the momory size from the system .... But system still fails later - when it tries to kvm_alloc memory ( initialize it ) for the very first time. So it looks to me like the memory management chips know only about 64MB... Extra detail - i defined LARGEMEM , when compiling the new kernel .... HEEEEEELP me :) .... I know that a lot of folx round here run FreeBSD with memory size like this or bigger ... Anothr question is - does Free2.0R have any limitations , like pty's , MAXUSERS and etc.. ? I plan to run the beast as server for interactive users - 50-100 of them on-line at the same time .... Till now I pretty satisfied with the speed .... Except the memory problem ... which is not BSD's one i think ...... Some fun : whem I told to Gateway support ppl that I have a PC with 128Mb onboard , they just told me that user is not supposed to have that much memory ... ( it's explicitly stated in the manual the darn Gateway _can have 128Mb installed ). ==== SY RK