Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 02:52:16 -0700 From: "Ron Smith" <ronnetron@hotmail.com> To: wd@arpa.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not seeing all my memory Message-ID: <F1496n4sBri2KWPi40t00010a99@hotmail.com>
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Hey, thanks Chip. I also ran across the solution, probably as you were responding to my post :-). Oddly enough I found the references to the '/var/run/dmesg.boot' file and the 'dmesg' command under the "Adding Disks" section (Chapter 12) of the online FreeBSD Handbook, and also "The Complete FreeBSD" (Chapter 14). Sorry, for the false alarm. Ron >From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com> >To: Ron Smith <ronnetron@hotmail.com> >CC: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Not seeing all my memory >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:33:58 -0400 > >On Fri Aug 24, 2001; 02:02AM -0700 Ron Smith used 1.1K bytes of bandwidth >to send the following: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm mailing with a question about memory. I installed an additional >128MB of > > memory to an existing 64MB. The BIOS recognizes the additional memory, >but > > the OS does *not*. I'm not finding anything in the normal docs on this > > problem. Can someone point me in the right direction. I'd like to get >the > > system to recognize the additional RAM. Following is addition info: > > > > > > bash-2.05$ uname -a says: > > FreeBSD thor 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT > > 2001 > > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > > > > > bash-2.05$ top says: > > last pid: 65882; load averages: 0.26, 0.08, 0.02 up 9+05:33:20 > > 01:49:04 > > 50 processes: 2 running, 48 sleeping > > CPU states: 7.8% user, 0.0% nice, 7.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 84.8% > > idle > > Mem: 57M Active, 23M Inact, 23M Wired, 4240K Cache, 29M Buf, 78M Free > > Swap: 388M Total, 18M Used, 370M Free, 4% Inuse > > > >57+23+23+4+29+78 > 192 (64+128). Obviously some creative numbering, >but it looks like the system sees all of your new memory. > >Incidentally, a better way to check and see how much memory the OS found >is: >dmesg | grep 'real mem', which for me says: >real memory = 402587648 (393152K bytes) >(meaning I have 384 megs of memory). > >Check that number, I'm sure it will say that you have 196608kb of real mem. > > Ron Smith > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >-wd >-- >chip norkus(rl); white_dragon('net'); wd@arpa.com >"That's Tron. He fights for the users." http://telekinesis.org _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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