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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:57:26 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Eric Osterweil <eoster@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory
Message-ID:  <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <DF52D4C2-523B-48E4-957A-01FB81C80FC3@CS.UCLA.EDU>
References:  <DF52D4C2-523B-48E4-957A-01FB81C80FC3@CS.UCLA.EDU>

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Hi,


Eric Osterweil wrote:

> make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it.
> 
> Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB?
> 
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007

this looks like a 32 bit binary to me.

You either need a 64 bit binary or you need to enable PAE.

Just build a custom kernel for 64 bits.

> real memory  = 4227792896 (4031 MB)
> avail memory = 4139991040 (3948 MB)

Erich



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