On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Kevin P. Lawton wrote:

> Alex Kellett wrote:
> > BTW, the vm's only currently seem to work with memory sizes of 4mb + 8mb
> > (iirc), is this the expected?
> 
> Yeah, 4meg quantities fit nicely into the paging scheme.  The middle
> 10bits (page table bits) of an address span 4 megs.  I couldn't see
> any reason not to make life easy.

The real problem was that it doesn't like anything > 8mb, for exaple:
        ...
        Allocating 24MB of physical memory in VM
        ioctl
        : Invalid argument
Any possible reason?

Alex

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