From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 22:42:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F245916A53E for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8183113C45D for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:42:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4m90-0006NI-Pl for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:06 +0100 Received: from 89-172-47-125.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.47.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:06 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-47-125.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:42:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:41:42 +0100 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig343A95737B28C14A24E5A1A2" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-47-125.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram 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: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:42:23 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig343A95737B28C14A24E5A1A2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. >=20 > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG >=20 > 786432k above 4GB ignored >=20 > Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this >=20 > real memory =3D 3489300480 (3327 MB) > avail memory =3D 3414659072 (3256 MB) >=20 > Soo I'm at a bit of a loss. You're using the 32-bit version, right? The design of x86 architecture (i.e. it's not FreeBSD's problem) is such that a part of memory addresses needs to be set aside for hardware uses, such as the PCI bus, AGP memory & others. This manifests as "holes" in memory that are not accessible to OS. There are two possible solutions: you may try compiling a 32-bit kernel with PAE (but not all drivers support PAE), or install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD. --------------enig343A95737B28C14A24E5A1A2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpWusldnAQVacBcgRAklWAKDmQ18OdqGb3Rb6+ZitXL5fSp+VfwCgj2ZR T6RfJobfc/fG7s/GaTxBdow= =Irmg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig343A95737B28C14A24E5A1A2--