Subject: Re: How do I get NetBSD to recognize 128MB of memory?
To: Duncan McEwan <duncan@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>
From: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/23/1997 12:44:06
>One possibility is that the number we set EXTMEM_SIZE to is incorrect.
>Unfortunately this machine is quite busy so it's inconvenient to experiment on
>by rebooting it frequently. We currently have EXTMEM_SIZE set to 130432, which
>is (128MB - 640KB)/1024. Should this perhaps be set to 130048 (ie, changing
>the 640KB to 1MB, to allow for the I/O hole in the i386 address space)? If so,
>could this overstating of the amount of physical memory we have be the cause of
>the fatal pagefault panic?
set EXTMEM_SIZE to 130048 (for the hole, yes) and set NKPDE to 16. that
works for me on my machines that are running >64M.
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