From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 3:32: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D78837B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from trefle.ens.fr (trefle.ens.fr [129.199.96.17]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g0VBVul35584 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:31:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from (beig@localhost) by trefle.ens.fr (8.11.6/jb-1.1) X-Authentication-Warning: trefle.ens.fr: beig set sender to Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr using -f Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 12:31:55 +0100 From: Jacques Beigbeder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dohy Hong Subject: how to size memory? Message-ID: <20020131123155.A10595@trefle.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hardware (2 years old): PC Dell Optiplex GX300 2 processors 800 Mhz 256 Mo ECC RDRAM (in the Setup) Windows NT 4.0 says that the memory is 256 Mb. Perfect. But FreeBSD within the boot says: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #3: Thu Jan 31 09:47:44 CET 2002 ... real memory = 66707456 (65144K bytes) avail memory = 61202432 (59768K bytes) ... How can you explain this difference (64 Mb vs 256 Mb)??? -- Jacques Beigbeder | Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr Service de Prestations Informatiques | http://www.spi.ens.fr Ecole normale supérieure | 45 rue d'Ulm |Tel : (+33 1)1 44 32 37 96 F75230 Paris cedex 05 |Fax : (+33 1)1 44 32 20 75 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message