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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.
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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 !