From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 23:47:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A3B106564A for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:47:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doverosx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D028FC12 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 23:47:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb24 with SMTP id 24so630772wwb.13 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:received:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=PP+1uRDrn3rWRndhq5x1/ddg9rLu5e6XOidwLPao/3U=; b=nldf4zuDso4lhm/7jibbLSWrXr0YXaZHq7TbAVhtQranDt5uXrXd9gqr37UjZBI0vh UyeQw7LcYUhru47N6ngoqxskzwX/TCjLxZjObtjlIevHOcfqk2DB9RFTAM1nc2vG7hU4 qOdhc03txSBWrivbKM85IwjASxjMc66hud/S4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ju57Hs/dcAQkuOk9tBpAgQKQihklh1h/uO48xfbkMzJfz6ABgUESZwVX4K+8OpobGK L2BN8OQuy/i0X+RZTdEq1q3UgxB32//WsQPQEwOgKVmkGjnEGtqmEq5E+wjY8V7yWgyB OLTjV5086roLCQ1j90D2c4IaThthd1TahbBVc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.51.205 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:21:59 -0400 Received: by 10.216.90.141 with SMTP id e13mr418122wef.166.1270768919630; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Brodey Dover To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:47:24 -0000 Hello all, First post to this list! I have an older PII machine that I upgraded from 192MB of ram to 672MB of RAM (512, 32, 128) and upon boot the system's BIOS recognizes all 672MB RAM, FreeBSD also recognizes the 672MB RAM but decides to be nice and cool by using 17MB RAM...bwah? Here is the output from the dmesg lines. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (348.21-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff /**** MEMORY STUFF ****/ real memory = 704905216 (672 MB) avail memory = 18116608 (17 MB) <=== why? is it a sysctl? /**** MEMORY STUFF ****/ kbd1 at kbdmux0 acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 29f00000 (3) failed Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xf808-0xf80b on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: on hostb0 there are no other errors that I can find. Thanks in advance, Brodey Dover