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- From: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy)
- Subject: Re: Kernel Memory question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.044317.26568@decuac.dec.com>
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- Sender: murphy@gorn.enet.dec.com (Rick Murphy)
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Landover MD
- References: <1992Dec12.202317.15659@nntpserver.chevron.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:43:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.202317.15659@nntpserver.chevron.com>, hbawl@usmi02.midland.chevron.com (Wilber L. Baker) writes:
- |> Somewhere (probably this news group) I seem to remember a suggestion
- |> that one build the Ultrix kernal for slightly more physical memory
- |> that one actually has....
- |> Memory boards == 64MB
- |>
- |> then in /sys/conf/mips/'MACHINENAME' set
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- |> physmem 72
- |>
- |> Did I dream this?..I thought I saved the article... now can't find it.
- |> I think it had to do with bumping some internal pointers up and
- |> eliminating wasted memory inherent in Ultrix.....
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- Nope.
- "physmem" is used to size several kernel tables; you generally want to have
- it be greater than the memory on the system, but it's not that important.
- I know of no "wasted memory inherent in ULTRIX". Sounds like nonsense to me..
- -Rick
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