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- From: merlyn9@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (michael.t.sedwick)
- Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:10:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.021012.12470@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
- References: <Bu2oA5.9GL@constant.demon.co.uk> <Bu9E9r.H7z@maxed.amg.com> <2601@aegis.or.jp>
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- In article <2601@aegis.or.jp> davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane) writes:
- >ed@maxed (Ed Whittemore) writes:
- >
- >>Simon Langley (slangley@constant.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >>: I have a 486 (ISA) with 20MB installed running ESIX 4.0.3. When I boot,
- >>: the machine recognises the full 20MB but ESIX only seems to recognise 16MB.
- >>:
- >>: Does anyone know how to set things up to recognise all the memory?
- >
- >>THis is a complicated issue, but the answer is you don't.
- >
- >Oh my, I'm having the same problems with a 486 (ISA) with 24 MB
- >installed running ISC 3.0. The ROM BIOS, Manifest, etc. recognize
- >the full 24 MB but ISC only recognizes 16 MB.
- >
- >I see options under konfig:memory size for up to 64 MB but according
- >to the documentation this only affects the size of various buffers,
- >etc. and all available memory is used.
- >
- >I would like to understand the complications: can you/somebody supply
- >details?
- >
-
-
- ... you might want to check your SWAP partition "size"!
-
- THIS MUST BE ATLEAST AS LARGE AS THAT OF PHYSICAL MEMORY..
-
- this has cause me problems in the past... & recamended ie 1/2 time memory size
- especially if you are planning on running heavy X sessions!!!
-
- --michael
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