From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 14:16:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8683B16A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:16:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gldis.ca (constans.gldis.ca [66.11.169.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F47743D46 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:16:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gldis.ca (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with SMTP id i5JETZqi030554; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:29:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gldisater@gldis.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: gldis.ca: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol Message-ID: <40D44B9E.9060204@gldis.ca> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 10:20:14 -0400 From: Jeremy Faulkner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040522) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Diaguila References: <40D43E06.8080906@hcs.net> In-Reply-To: <40D43E06.8080906@hcs.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 14:16:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Diaguila wrote: | Greetings | | I've added a gig of memory to a 5.1 system. When booting, it shows 1024 | meg. Looking in the dmesg log, it says: | real memory = 268414976 (255 MB) | avail memory = 251363328 (239 MB) | | I would expect to see real memeory at 1024 also.... What don't I | understand???? | | thanks... | | Paul If you are reading the dmesg via dmesg|more, page down. A lot. It is not uncommon to have multiple boot records in dmesg's output. What does sysctl hw.physmem return? - -- Jeremy Faulkner http://www.gldis.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA1Euefb0Lle2MIEIRAljJAKC9OKgROJPtlnYw21ymFtwZv58TygCfZtVR KLNwXaSHMFAFNm6hEtUP93k= =ijjA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----