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Martin McCormick wrote:
 one of the boot messages we see is
> that all memory above 4 gigs is ignored or something to that
> effect.
> real memory  = 3489300480 (3327 MB)
> avail memory = 3414794240 (3256 MB)
Thats not freebsd and if its its because you are using i386 and not amd64

>From a 1950

head -25 /var/run/dmesg.boot
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 #0: Fri Jan 12 08:43:30 UTC 2007
    root@portnoy.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE_SC3  >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5310  @ 1.60GHz (1595.93-MHz
K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f7  Stepping = 7

Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>

Features2=0x4e33d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,TM2,<b9>,CX16,<b14>,<b15>,<b18>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  Cores per package: 4
real memory  = 9395240960 (8960 MB)
avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
 cpu4 (AP): APIC ID:  4
 cpu5 (AP): APIC ID:  5
 cpu6 (AP): APIC ID:  6


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