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From: Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: >64 Megs (128Megs) of RAM on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Date: 10 Aug 1995 16:40:16 GMT
Organization: Pacific HiTech Inc.
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We had the same problem.  You need to recompile your kernel with this option:

options "MAXMEM=131072"

(expressed in kilobytes)

sadly, I didn't notice the little boot message until about a month after
cranking our machine up to 96m from 64.

run 

 systat -vmstat

to watch the results :)

-- 
brad@pht.com