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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I have 64MB but only see 12MB Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:11:16 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Cold Coast, Australia) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <322BBDF4.69AF@OntheNet.com.au> References: <3227247F.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) Robert Withrow wrote: > > This seems different from the FAQ. I have a P6_200 > with 64MB of memory (which the bios sees) but FreeBSD > only sees 12MB. This is 2.1.5. Dmesg excerpts follow: > Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,<b11>,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV> > real memory = 12582912 (12288K bytes) > avail memory = 10743808 (10492K bytes) > I had a similar problem with a 128 Mb P120 system. The solution was to build a kernel with the- options "MAXMEM=131072" #128Mb RAM In you case, use 65536 as the # of 1Kb chunks of RAM! Tony