From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 04:07:07 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E643216A421 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eoster@CS.UCLA.EDU) Received: from smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EE013C474 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:07:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eoster@CS.UCLA.EDU) Received: from mail.ucla.edu (mail.ucla.edu [169.232.46.157]) by smtp-4.smtp.ucla.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8R470o8013618; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:07:00 -0700 Received: from [192.168.0.3] (cpe-76-168-53-190.socal.res.rr.com [76.168.53.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.ucla.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8R46wdI004842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:06:59 -0700 In-Reply-To: <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg> References: <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <74CB72FB-0B36-4945-B121-E61E07BAA4F5@CS.UCLA.EDU> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Osterweil Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:06:57 -0700 To: Erich Dollansky X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Probable-Spam: no X-Spam-Hits: 0.654 X-Spam-Report: SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Scanned-By: smtp.ucla.edu on 169.232.46.137 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory 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: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:07:08 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFG+yxhK/tq6CJjZQIRAjpiAKCInEOQtDgn4o6yU1T/8gyaeCqFPQCfdJK5 6q5BBIEz+Kqq3O8nB3LmDFE= =hU8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----