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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I have 64MB but only see 12MB
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:11:16 +1000
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Robert Withrow wrote:
> 
> This seems different from the FAQ.  I have a P6_200
> with 64MB of memory (which the bios sees) but FreeBSD
> only sees 12MB.  This is 2.1.5.  Dmesg excerpts follow:
> 
Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,<b11>,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
> real memory  = 12582912 (12288K bytes)
> avail memory = 10743808 (10492K bytes)
> 
I had a similar problem with a 128 Mb P120 system.  The solution was to
build a kernel with the-

options        "MAXMEM=131072"    #128Mb RAM

In you case, use 65536 as the # of 1Kb chunks of RAM!

Tony