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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!Gamma.RU!srcc!not-for-mail From: ivt@gamma.ru (Igor Timkin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 256M RAM question Date: 23 Apr 1997 00:55:18 +0400 Organization: Gamma Ltd., Moscow, Russia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5jj8jm$auf$1@news.gamma.ru> References: <335CF65C.4435@sonic.net> <5jiv5o$le9$1@bofh.noc.best.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.gamma.ru X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39549 Ron Echeverri (rone@bofh.noc.best.net) wrote: : In article <335CF65C.4435@sonic.net>, Eric J. Rossin <ejr@sonic.net> wrote: : >I have a machine with 256M RAM. I re-built a kernel to set the : >MAXMEM option, but when I set it to 256*1024, the boot hung : >(something about allocating bounce buffers? I don't re-member : >the exact message, but could re-create it if it is needed). I then : >changed it to 192*1024, and the system runs fine (with 192M RAM). : >Is this a memory problem with my system, a bug, or a setup problem? : I think it's a bug. You should take BOUNCE_BUFFERS out of your kernel : config; it doesn't seem to like 256MB of RAM. : rone I don't have any problems (heavy loaded news server). Config: options "MAXMEM='(256*1024)'" options "DFLDSIZ='(128UL*1024*1024)'" options "MAXDSIZ='(256UL*1024*1024)'" options "NBUF=6144" options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 options BOUNCE_BUFFERS #include support for DMA bounce buffers uname -a: FreeBSD news 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 25 02:13:22 MSK 1997 ivt@news:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS i386