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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:06:57 -0700
From:      Eric Osterweil <eoster@CS.UCLA.EDU>
To:        Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory
Message-ID:  <74CB72FB-0B36-4945-B121-E61E07BAA4F5@CS.UCLA.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <DF52D4C2-523B-48E4-957A-01FB81C80FC3@CS.UCLA.EDU> <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg>

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On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Eric Osterweil wrote:
>
>> make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB  
>> of it.
>> Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB?
>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
>
> this looks like a 32 bit binary to me.
>
> You either need a 64 bit binary or you need to enable PAE.
>
> Just build a custom kernel for 64 bits.
>

Ahh... To do this, do I just specify the CPUTYPE in the /etc/ 
make.conf as:
CPUTYPE=amd64
?

Thanks a lot for the quick response!

Eric

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