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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:52:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Real vs available memory
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412101851020.10831@Ace.nina.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141209153341.6206e954@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091010320.1004@Ace.nina.org> <20141209153341.6206e954@gumby.homeunix.com>

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> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:19:31 -0500 (EST)
> Frank Seltzer wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I
>> have added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The
>> system BIOS sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD
>> but I get this during boot.
>>
>> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
>>
>> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?

At the suggestion of several of you I have installed AMD64 in place of 
i386 and all is well.

Thanks everyone.

Frank



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