Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:11:24 -0500 From: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Strange memory reading (hardware) Message-ID: <25954_1308262285_4DFA7F8D_25954_172_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B43499BF89C547@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> In-Reply-To: <20110616141030.0f3dc5f3@dell64> References: <20110616141030.0f3dc5f3@dell64>
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It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - "Redistribution of RAM"= . You see, even with all the entitlement programs "poor" people can't affo= rd more than 512MB of RAM. As you are certainly aware that's not enough to= watch YouTube and Hulu on their government funded (tax payer funded) ultra= high speed internet connections. So, the government has taken some of you= r RAM (as you obviously can afford to buy more if needed) and will give it = to those who really NEED it - so while they sit around collecting governmen= t aid (tax payer earnings) their streaming video's will play smoothly. Woa - I guess I digressed a bit... Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be. Is there some memory mapped = video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM? G -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@f= reebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@ Subject: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware) Greetings=20 I have a strange problem with memory on one of my computers. I have recently converted this computer to a NAS server. It is an Asus A8N-VM MB running freenas amd64. I have 4 one Gig memory sticks installed and as well as I can remember, it had always seen the 4 Gig of RAM. Most recently I had 9 current installed. The problem is not with freenas as it is absolutely hardware.=20 I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of the 1024 one would expect. Quickly subtracting 960 from 1024 gets 64 MB missing. Hmmm, perhaps an address lead or data lead on the MB is open. This I can understand, but using any finagling factors I can think of, I can't get close to the missing total of 1344 MB (4096-2752). The freenas system runs quite well with the available memory but I was wondering if anyone could help me understand this problem. Thank you for reading this and i hope you are having a great day. Robert _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" <font size=3D"1"> <div style=3D'border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0i= n 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font>
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