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#! rnews 1878 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!shift.utell.net!nobody From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 384 megs of RAM Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:40:17 +0100 Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <11ntp5.jm1.ln@shift.utell.net> References: <33C1972D.57F6035E@airmail.net> <33C1BFCD.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44113 In article <33C1BFCD.59E2B600@freebsd.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > [emailed and posted] > > Phil Crown wrote: >> Will FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE work with 384 megs of RAM? > > Absolutely. We're running it with 512MB of RAM in ftp.cdrom.com, in > fact. > >> I tried the MAXMEM=393216 option but it didn't work. > > You sure you had it quoted correctly? Here's the line we're using > (pasted directly from ftp.cdrom.com's kernel config file): > > options "MAXMEM=524288" I've been curious for a while, why the "" ? Does config do something smart with the "", 'cos if it doesn't, surely they don't matter unless they're hiding something from the shell. So I'd expect options "special*chars" and options no-special-chars Is this not the case ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !