On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:55, Terry Lambert wrote: > walt wrote: > > Steve Kargl wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:08:40PM -0500, Eric Jones wrote: > > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option? > > > > > > I don't know. I've always used MAXMEM. Guess it's > > > time to remove it from my kernel config file. > > > > FWIW, I've been using FBSD -stable and -current for about 3 years > > on five different machines and I've never used MAXMEM. Never had > > any problems recognizing memory, either -- guess I've been luckier > > than some. > > MAXMEM is useful for testing configurations with less memory, > without having to open up your box and yank SIMMs, or to have > a bunch of different sized pairs of SIMMs lying around. > > -- Terry >
For uses such as testing I can understand, but I don't see a use under normal conditions, at least on newer systems. I haven't dug into the source yet today, but there must be a reason why ACPI doesn't play nice on certain systems when MAXMEM is specified. I wonder if it is just AMD systems? Mine's a 900MHz Duron, and IIRC I think someone else in earlier in the thread was using an AMD also. -- Eric Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
