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