Re: NetBSD VM crashing with 16M, NOT with 14.5M!

[Chun Tham <ctham%acs.ucalgary.ca@localhost>]

On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, Phil Kernick wrote:

> 
> I am using NetBSD 1.1 on an A2500 with 44M memory, and it is completely
> stable.  However, it crashed all the time when I had the 16bit memory from
> my A2091 enabled.  With that disabled, and the A2630 with 3 blocks of
> memory (4M + 36M + 4M) it's beautiful.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Phil.
> 
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Hi there Phil....  Thanks for the tip...  Actually I do have 2M of 16-bit
RAM in the machine and I guess that could be the reason.  So the question
is, how did you diable the 16-bit RAM?!  I've tried using "shutup" and
then "gobsd" as well as "loadbsd -n 0" and in both circumstances when the
kernel boots it still detects that there's still the 2M of RAM there.  I
guess GOBSD (v1.04) and LOADBSD (2.14) still are passing the 2M RAM to the
kernel.


I really don't feel like physically taking the Z2 RAM out since I don't
mind having it around on the AmigaDOS side...  Hmmm, it's too bad that
LoadBSD doesn't have a 'memfile' option like on amiboot for Linux where
you could define how much memory to use and where the chunks are...

Thanks,
Joe Tham

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Chun W. (Joe) Tham - Dept. of Psychiatry
 University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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