Is this a pentium, ppro, pII, what?

Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> NetBSD 1.3.3 / i386.  With 128 MB of RAM, the system works flawlessly.
> With 256 MB, I get this in syslog:
> 
> Apr 20 16:09:53 news /netbsd: ð Àð
> Apr 20 16:09:53 news /netbsd: ð
> Apr 20 16:09:53 news /netbsd: ðPq!ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð%Àð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð.½ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð2»ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news /netbsd: ð
> Apr 20 16:09:54 news last message repeated 5 times
> 
> And dmesg says:
> 
> Well, doesn't say - the system crashed.  It complained about bad addresses
> (kvm_read or something).  This used to work with 128 MB.
> 
> I managed to run top for a while and it reported "224 MB free" so the
> system detected all 256 MB.
> 
> Do I need to build a new kernel to support 256 MB or is part of the memory
> broken or...?
> 
> (Oh I hate this pc hardware.. you never know what's going on..)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   -jm