Increasing memory on a FreeBSD 4.3

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jul 2 17:22:57 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:07:50PM -0400, Sorin Chiorean wrote:
> 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 ?

I don't believe you can - typically you don't need to hardcode MAXMEM
in the kernel configuration anyway, because FreeBSD will autodetect.

kris

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