Hi
I agree here with Terry. It is immense help to be able to set
MAXMEM to something less to study the behaviour of the system under
memory pressure for one.
It is also helpful to keep the size of the crash dumps small
Aniruddha
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Vinc
Vincent Poy wrote:
> > > MAXMEM is useful for testing configurations with less memory,
> > > without having to open up your box and yank SIMMs, or to have
> > > a bunch of different sized pairs of SIMMs lying around.
> >
> > For uses such as testing I can understand, but I don't see a use under
> >
Vincent Poy wrote:
> > > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option?
> > > >
> > > > I don't know. I've always used MAXMEM. Guess it's
> > > > time to remove it from my kernel config file.
> > >
> > > FWIW, I've been using FBSD -stable and -current for about 3 years
>
On 26 Jan 2003, Eric Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:55, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > walt wrote:
> > > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:08:40PM -0500, Eric Jones wrote:
> > > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option?
> > > >
> > > > I don't
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> walt wrote:
> > Steve Kargl wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:08:40PM -0500, Eric Jones wrote:
> > >>Is there any reason, on newer motherboards, to need the MAXMEM option?
> > >
> > > I don't know. I've always used MAXMEM. Guess it's
> > > time t
