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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nerd.apk.net!sed.psrw.com!news.eff.org!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pagesat.net!napoleon.dbeach.com.!usenet From: David Albany <hanz@mail.dbeach.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading memeory Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 20:14:11 -0700 Organization: V-Soccer Lines: 29 Message-ID: <31DDDA03.39ED@mail.dbeach.com> References: <31D84009.88@dslab.com> <4rc2d2$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4rgbrs$fob@testpattern.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dbmd027.dbeach.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) To: Wayne Farmer <wayne@aarnet.edu.au> Wayne Farmer wrote: > > j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: > > >Ian Wilkinson <ian@dslab.com> wrote: > > >> Will dramatically increasing the memory size lead to any odd > >> behaviours if I just install the simms and reboot? > > >Nope, except that you have to reconfigure a special kernel when using > >more than 64 MB. The generic kernel will only use up to 64 MB. > >(Since that's the limit of the CMOS cell holding the RAM size.) > > Could I be directed to the info on building this special kernel. I > have just upgraded to 128Mb but found that >64Mb is indeed ignored. > > WayneHere is where you can find the answer. http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/freebsd-faq93.html#93 Hope that helps :) Dave > > >Of course, you might also want to bump your `maxusers' option, so the > >new kernel will allow for much more resource usage. > > >-- > >cheers, J"org > > >joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > >Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)