Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:48 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060417144731.029b7d98@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB useable by the system. -Derek At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, 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. > > >-Wash > >http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > >DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php > >-- >+======================================================================+ > |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> >Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 >+======================================================================+ > >It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. > -- Garfield >_______________________________________________ >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"
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