Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:40:33 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@mangohealth.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> In-Reply-To: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. > > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access > more than 2GB RAM. > > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > the full 4GB RAM. 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. Just my $.02 Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@mangohealth.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEQqvN2TFLCHYGSF0RAuOoAJ9mhsghmQqRT7p7WakqZbAC7n9dKwCeIpmd 5vJ+IRxkNxr7JPduvoJ8zdE= =Lgft -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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