From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 04:23:22 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 6E98716A41B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eoster@cs.ucla.edu) Received: from smtp-7.smtp.ucla.edu (smtp-7.smtp.ucla.edu [169.232.46.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A94113C455 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eoster@cs.ucla.edu) Received: from mail.ucla.edu (mail.ucla.edu [169.232.47.145]) by smtp-7.smtp.ucla.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8R4NHcc000371; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:23:17 -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 l8R4NGHN012039 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:23:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <26F3B5E1A6FC015BDA8980FB@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg> <74CB72FB-0B36-4945-B121-E61E07BAA4F5@CS.UCLA.EDU> <26F3B5E1A6FC015BDA8980FB@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <15004D6C-78BF-4858-99AF-CD6D1DDC8214@cs.ucla.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Osterweil Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:23:15 -0700 To: Paul Schmehl 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 169.232.46.138 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 04:23:22 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil > wrote: > >> -----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 >> ? >> > No. Add options SMP to GENERIC or use the SMP conf file that's > already there (and includes GENERIC). Then recompile the kernel > per the handbook. That was the first thing I did. This is the kernel that's failing to see the memory. :-/ Is there anything else I might need to do too? Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFG+zAzK/tq6CJjZQIRAi7/AKCNt/t1rDreSpku/RzhZBi4EK+pcQCfUHdU IZk9CxLq9BlLb0IUWUBkuN8= =Vobp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----