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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.cs.utah.edu!news.cc.utah.edu!news From: Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: >64 Megs (128Megs) of RAM on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Date: 10 Aug 1995 16:40:16 GMT Organization: Pacific HiTech Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <40dcpg$cbd@news.cc.utah.edu> References: <40bgit$80m@superman.ids.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: weevil.pht.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; Linux 1.2.8 i486) To: green@ids.net X-URL: news:40bgit$80m@superman.ids.net We had the same problem. You need to recompile your kernel with this option: options "MAXMEM=131072" (expressed in kilobytes) sadly, I didn't notice the little boot message until about a month after cranking our machine up to 96m from 64. run systat -vmstat to watch the results :) -- brad@pht.com