Subject: Re: /kern/physmem
To: None <sridhar@firestorm.ikickass.org>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@tappedin.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/22/2001 16:52:14
>Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:43:17 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Sridhar Ayengar <sridhar@firestorm.ikickass.org>
>
>When I 'cat /kern/physmem' it says '8096' even though I have 32 MB RAM in
>the machine.  Is this a problem, or is this OK?

Try:

expr `cat /kern/physmem` '*' `cat /kern/pagesize`

MOUNT_KERNFS(8)         NetBSD System Manager's Manual         MOUNT_KERNFS(8)
[...]
     pagesize   the machine pagesize (decimal ASCII).
     physmem    the number of pages of physical memory in the machine (decimal
                ASCII).

Cheers,
entropy

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