From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 23:52:49 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 F1C3116A416 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05E513C458 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dghatikachalam@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so263811wxc for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:52:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=IY/qQ05Ry2OsBeOkTvwVOUUZMj8TsrHz47Yqii9y1wHT+qVmul8U54e5qSu5X+cloMggzhy+SLJX/8mJAoGV2gN0+c2xuwKk3Wwi7ukFJojNlyQN2H/d2TDGdc28ed53Lr/jBN15aqO8lsUMhcplPDbnlaRatI4THWIPqcyS07g= Received: by 10.70.84.6 with SMTP id h6mr1598104wxb.1168473169113; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.52.12 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:52:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:52:48 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" To: "Jeff MacDonald" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 23:52:50 -0000 How about running top. do sysctl -a|grep shm or grep sem or all memory related configs and look into /etc/sysctl.conf may be something in configs is stealing away your 4G Apologies if you already knew this and if I am stating the obvious. regards Dak On 1/10/07, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > Hi, > > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. > > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG > > 786432k above 4GB ignored > > Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this > > real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) > avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB) > > Soo I'm at a bit of a loss. > > Jeff. > > -- > Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write is either garnered from > experience or pulled out of my ass, depending on situational needs.. > > Jeff MacDonald > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >