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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.seanet.com!news From: Charlie Root <dennisg@seanet.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Max. Addressable Physical Memory Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 00:38:58 -0700 Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3258B392.41C67EA6@seanet.com> References: <538m2p$g8h@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dennisg.seanet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) To: tundra@tundraware.com Tim Daneliuk wrote: > > My FreeBSD 2.1.5 systems runs on a Gateway 90Mhz Pentium motherboard. > I recently upgraded from 16MB to 80MB (2-32M and 2-8M SIMMS). The > POST sees all 80MB, but FreeBSD sees only the first 64MB. Is there > some inherent FreeBSD limitation here or is this a problem 'cause I > mixed SIMM sizes? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Tim Daneliuk / tundra@tundraware.com > Voicemail/FAX 847.827.1706 you must recompile your kernel. the following options are from my kernel. notice the MAXMEM=81920. Thsi is documented in the FAQ, and in LINT. options INET options FFS options MFS options "COMPAT_43" options NO_SCSI_SENSE options "SCSI_DELAY=5" options "MAXMEM=81920" options UCONSOLE options SYSVSHM options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG