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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news1.best.com!miwok!ultra.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: "Eric J. Rossin" <ejr@sonic.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 256M RAM question Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:33:16 -0700 Organization: InteliData Lines: 11 Message-ID: <335CF65C.4435@sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.235.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39534 I have a machine with 256M RAM. I re-built a kernel to set the MAXMEM option, but when I set it to 256*1024, the boot hung (something about allocating bounce buffers? I don't re-member the exact message, but could re-create it if it is needed). I then changed it to 192*1024, and the system runs fine (with 192M RAM). Is this a memory problem with my system, a bug, or a setup problem? thanks, -eric (ejr@sonic.net)