Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:32:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo.raburu@wananchi.com>, Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <20060417183246.GA93458@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com>
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--LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:52:30AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * 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 acce= ss > | > more than 2GB RAM. > | > > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > | > the full 4GB RAM. > |=20 > | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new= server=20 > | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should=20 > | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer probl= ems. >=20 > 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=20 > my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there=20 > is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which > I am not afraid to do. >=20 > Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? I'm not aware of any special steps required. Does 6.x see the extra RAM? Kris --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEQ99OWry0BWjoQKURAgG9AJ9uOpvpN1UwFa8rcERp3QAqD3Gx/gCgr+5n wBsfZn9QzMt3W0vPMrRKL2c= =qW2l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--
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