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Date:      Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:56:57 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin <tajul@bm.matrik.edu.my>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Memory ignored
Message-ID:  <20071007145657.GB84686@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <139c9dc70710070709m5b20ad53gd4e8532340b903cb@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <139c9dc70710070709m5b20ad53gd4e8532340b903cb@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:09:17PM +0800, TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin wr=
ote:
> Hi all,

> i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD
> 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory
> in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me some
> idea so that i can maximize my memory usage. My total memory is 8GB.

FreeBSD i386 (32 bits) can normally only address 4GB.

So you can either;
- use the PAE extension (but see =A78.4.1 in the FreeBSD Handbook)
- switch to the amd64 architecture.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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