Increasing memory on a FreeBSD 4.3

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 02), Sorin Chiorean said:
> I have increased memory on my FreeBSD from 128 Mb to 384 Mb.
>  
> I have a MAXMEM option in the Kernel configuration file :
> # Machine Information
> machine         "i386"
> cpu             "I686_CPU"
> ident           "test"
> maxusers        32
> options         MAXMEM=""131072"
> 
> How can I avoid to rebuild the kernel and to use all memory ?

Edit /boot/loader.conf and add a line like this:

hw.physmem="384M"

That will override the kernel MAXMEM value.

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	Dan Nelson
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