From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 08:05:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 3DBDE16A403 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCB043D48 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:05:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.61 #1 (FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE)) id 1FVOX8-000MLz-Dq by authid ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:52:30 +0300 Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:52:30 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Beech Rintoul Message-ID: <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message, where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.11 (2005-09-15) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: Odhiambo Washington Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:05:38 -0000 * On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: | > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) | > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) | > | > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. | > | > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access | > more than 2GB RAM. | > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see | > the full 4GB RAM. | | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. If it were not that I really respect your name.... ;) Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which I am not afraid to do. Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Odhiambo WASHINGTON . WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Laptrust Plaza, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- All of mankind has still a lot to learn. Me too... ;)