From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 14 07:12:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 298B7106568C for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:12:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stark@mapper.nl) Received: from smtp-out0.tiscali.nl (smtp-out0.tiscali.nl [195.241.79.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B67B08FC16 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.170.17.27] (helo=mapper.nl) by smtp-out0.tiscali.nl with esmtp (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1Mbqxj-0004E9-7b; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:31 +0200 Received: from bowser ([192.168.0.1] helo=[0.0.0.0]) by mapper.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Mbqxd-0003tB-5m; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4A850E52.6090901@mapper.nl> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:18 +0200 From: Mark Stapper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com References: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl> <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com> In-Reply-To: <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2294380F35F6850EC4DE4A8B" Cc: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:12:33 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2294380F35F6850EC4DE4A8B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote: > =20 >> I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. >> However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. >> Strangely enough, it says the following: >> [root@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory >> real memory =3D 2147483648 (2048 MB) >> avail memory =3D 4112240640 (3921 MB) >> >> and >> [root@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem >> [/snip] >> hw.physmem: 4277510144 >> hw.usermem: 3954216960 >> hw.realmem: 4831838208 >> [/snip] >> =20 > > Are you sure you're using amd64 and not i386? > =20 I'm very, very, very sure :-) my uname -a ends with "amd64". Besides, if I wasn't I still should have more then 2G of "real memory". The whole 2048M is just to good to be true (who has exactly 2^x bytes of memory really?) > % uname -a > FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0 r196086: Sat Aug 8 17:22:29 CDT 2009 root@myh= ost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > % sysctl -a | grep hw.....mem > hw.physmem: 8571977728 > hw.usermem: 7794733056 > hw.realmem: 9395240960 > > What motherboard/CPU? What does the BIOS report for memory? Let's see= > the first part of dmesg from a verbose boot. > =20 I own a DFI Lanparty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ BIOS reports (around) 4GiB Gentoo reports appr. 2.9GiB *cough* Windows *cough* reports 4GiB I'll get on the dmesg once I get home. Greetz, Mark --------------enig2294380F35F6850EC4DE4A8B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqFDlgACgkQN9xNqOOVnWA16ACfasQ2ImMMk4dX5k0wxS83WbDr 0TsAn0WBoa4+BrJat8GD+zZ19q+wl/u2 =zygS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2294380F35F6850EC4DE4A8B--