Re: ANNOUNCE: GTop 0.28 released

[stephen farrell <stephen farrell org>]

Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes:

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> On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Jason Nordwick wrote:
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> > To: Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org>
> > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GTop 0.28 released
> > From: Jason Nordwick <nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu>
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> > >FreeBSD people, short question:
> > >
> > >  How do I tell my FreeBSD kernel that I am having 96 MB of RAM and
> > >  not just 64 ?
> > >
> > >Martin
> > >
> > 
> > look in the LINT kernel config file if you have questions like the.  All new
> > version also ship with a new limit of 128M.
> > 
> > add:
> > 
> > option MAXMEM 64

This shouldn't be necessary at all on a > 2.2.6 kernel... (maybe even
2.2.5)

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> If was correct. Thanks !
> 
> However, the `top' utility still reports 64 MB RAM - but I booted
> with '-cv' and the kernel correctly reported 96 MB as does libgtop -
> so this is probably a problem with the `top' utility of FreeBSD ...

top in freebsd doesn't tell you how much ram you have.  it tells you
active, inact, wired, cache buf and free.  you could add them up ;-)

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Steve Farrell