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1.1     ! root        1: Date: Mon, 16 Feb 87 15:04:41 EST
        !             2: From: [email protected] (David Katinsky)
        !             3: To: [email protected]
        !             4: Subject: 3b2 procedure to raise MAXMEM
        !             5: 
        !             6: Below is the procedure I followed to allow enough memory for GnuEmacs to run
        !             7: on my 3b2/400. The end result of this is that a process can snarf up to 2Mb
        !             8: of memory. This can be a bit dangerous on a 2Mb machine, but I tried it and 
        !             9: it worked ok.
        !            10: 
        !            11: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !            12: 
        !            13: In the simplest case, these are the procedures to reconfigure a 3bx kernel.
        !            14: 
        !            15: 
        !            16: 
        !            17: 1] cd /etc/master.d
        !            18: 
        !            19: `ls` shows the files to be:
        !            20: 
        !            21: README   ctc*     hdelog   idisk    ipc      iuart    kernel   mau
        !            22: mem      msg      ports*   prf      sem      shm      stubs    sxt
        !            23: sys      xt
        !            24: 
        !            25: 2] Edit the file which contains the parameter[s] you wish to change.
        !            26: In the following excerpt from /etc/master.d/kernel the value MAXMEM
        !            27: was raised from 256 to 1024.
        !            28: 
        !            29: In V.3.0 and later releases, the parameter in question is MAXUMEM
        !            30: instead of MAXMEM.
        !            31: 
        !            32: 
        !            33:        *
        !            34:        * The following entries form the tunable parameter table.
        !            35:        *
        !            36: 
        !            37: 
        !            38:        NCALL = 30
        !            39:        NPROC = 60
        !            40:        NTEXT = 58
        !            41:        NCLIST = 188
        !            42:        * maxmem is number of pages (2K) was 256 --dmk
        !            43:        MAXMEM = 1024
        !            44:        MAXUP = 25
        !            45:        * hashbuf must be a power of 2
        !            46:        NHBUF = 128
        !            47:        NPBUF = 8
        !            48: 
        !            49: 3] cd /boot
        !            50: 
        !            51: 4] mkboot -k KERNEL
        !            52: 
        !            53: 5] shutdown -i5 -g0 -y
        !            54: 
        !            55: This will take the machine down and bring it back up into firmware
        !            56: mode. When you see that the machine has reached this state, type the
        !            57: firmware password (default=mcp). The machine will ask for the name of
        !            58: a program to execute. At this prompt enter /etc/system . The machine
        !            59: should start to boot and display its configuration data.
        !            60: 
        !            61: 
        !            62: 
        !            63: 8701271222                                     dmk
        !            64: 
        !            65:                                                [[email protected]]
        !            66: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        !            67: 
        !            68: 
        !            69: 
        !            70: I do not feel that having the default firmware password is a
        !            71: problem... but if you wish to edit it out, feel free.
        !            72: 
        !            73:                                                dmk
        !            74: 
        !            75: 

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