From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 12:31:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A85106566C for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 12:31:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from violentsense@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8034A8FC22 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 12:31:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from violentsense@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id h3so10579nfh.33 for ; Thu, 22 May 2008 05:31:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:references:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole:in-reply-to; bh=/jWCqbOnKn0DAUpj2fABUyNQCTIB/aFv9Ko6KmWmAMI=; b=nH3dbEnREIqfWKNZ9tE3P/opoktwwL0xP1YCDbxtFNaGWyyYbBNp634+xfU4jCH8XTMOeUByjFCAA1AIaJ1Ne8w0uEqXxjbLJNh1q1IUqEtmzeOEP1znJzeBmok/hS10KoPmncBhRCUZbJ1CtWnA3V/1/YZq7+EoEtRPMYreIAE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:references:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:x-mimeole:in-reply-to; b=R5TxGTeiWbVUpizOeOuoYOdXQDVMDM6OoSGsm76UDFdH7Ac7/sjplciCZAXPkWezL9/Zmp7Z2oAiHH3CoLWI2C+Pkx9vCN6VsN5Luxh7kVgh9cHLZEsmt/ivofsgzter3CjbGpJqvP9VdOBTxniFtIZaSR9V7K1FhN3fDRObDvI= Received: by 10.210.125.7 with SMTP id x7mr135ebc.45.1211459511267; Thu, 22 May 2008 05:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hellfire ( [213.33.223.238]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k7sm3349480nfh.17.2008.05.22.05.31.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 22 May 2008 05:31:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nifty" To: References: <000301c8b9d0$567196c0$1801a8c0@hellfire> <20080519173716.GA66704@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <1f00da1c0805191046s331330adv25b7587cc1385b18@mail.gmail.com> <000a01c8b9e3$084985d0$1801a8c0@hellfire> <20080519190938.GA67637@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:31:45 +0400 Message-ID: <006201c8bc07$cf5f9580$1801a8c0@hellfire> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: Aci55LuIT+DTuzAASp6BgblY17c76gCImXog X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 In-Reply-To: <20080519190938.GA67637@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 7.0R and 7.0CURRENT (amd64) show only 2, 5Gb RAM from 8Gb X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:31:53 -0000 >>No! If you have more than 4 Gb. FreeBSD will use it. >>What does 'uname -m' show? What motherboard do you have? >>-- >>Steve I have 8Gb of RAM in 4 DIMM's on each system. First PC: RAM: 8Gb, 4 x 2Gb Corsair PC2-6400 modules CPU: Intel C2Q 2.4GHz M/B: ASUS Commando (iP965) Video: nVidia 6800GS Second PC: RAM: 8Gb, 4 x 2Gb PC2-6400 Patriot modules CPU: Intel C2D 2.4GHz M/B: Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R (iG33) Video: int. On both computers I get similar results - for example, on second PC: dmesg ------------------------------------- OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC.MP) #1582: Wed Mar 12 11:16:45 MDT 2008 deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 3485982720 (3324MB) avail mem = 3370606592 (3214MB) mainbus0 at root ................... 'boot> machine memory' --------------------- Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 634KB Region 1: type 2 at 0xf0000 for 64KB Region 2: type 2 at 0xfec00000 for 20480KB Region 3: type 2 at 0xd0000000 for 262144KB Region 4: type 2 at 0x9f800 for 2KB Region 5: type 2 at 0xcfcf0000 for 64KB Region 6: type 1 at 0x100000 for 3403648KB Region 7: type 3 at 0xcfce3000 for 52KB Region 8: type 4 at 0xcfce0000 for 12KB Region 9: type 1 at 0x100000000 for 4980736KB Low ram: 634KB High ram: 3403648KB Total free memory: 8385018KB -------------------------------------------- Thanks to all for replies! At this time I can't do more research on this problem, but at weekend I have a lot time for testing and get one more PC with i975X chipset. So, after Sunday I'll post results of testing x64 versions of FreeBSD 7.0/8.0, Ubuntu Linux and OpenBSD on my three PC's with 8Gb RAM. Regards, Alexandr.