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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading memeory
Date: 3 Jul 1996 00:49:25 -0500
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Ian Wilkinson (ian@dslab.com) wrote:
: I currently have a 486 DX 66 with 8mb of RAM serving web 
: pages at http://www.dslab.com.
: With the current price of memory, I wanted to add more.
: Will dramatically increasing the memory size lead to any odd 
: behaviours if I just install the simms and reboot?
: -IAN

If it's an ISA bus and you end up with more than 16Mb, make
sure you've got BOUNCE_BUFFERS enabled in your kernel.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....