On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Hacksaw wrote:

> So I took the refreshing plunge and max'ed out my RAM. Of
> course, it only deals with 64M. What specifically do I need to do to
> get the kernel to recognize the full 128 Megs and not panic.
> 
> Yes, the BIOS sees all the memory.
> 
	Add 'options        BIOSEXTMEM=...'
	to your config - this is probably your total memory minus
	1Mb

> Will the poor thing freak out if it doesn't have matching swap space?
> (I have 64M). 

	Only if you need to crashdump because of a panic & find you
	were using more ram than you have swap.

	In fact if you do not need kernel dumps then you _could_ run
	with zero swap - netbsd wont hit the swap until you run out of ram
	anyway... but its nice to have the swap just in case :)

	PS: Lucky so & so :)

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