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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:59:35 -0500
From:      "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com>
To:        Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl>
Cc:        "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram
Message-ID:  <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl>
References:  <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl>

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote:
> 
> 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  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
> avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB)
> 
> and
> [root@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem
> [/snip]
> hw.physmem: 4277510144
> hw.usermem: 3954216960
> hw.realmem: 4831838208
> [/snip]

Are you sure you're using amd64 and not i386?

% uname -a
FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0 r196086: Sat Aug  8 17:22:29 CDT 2009     root@myhost:/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.

-- Rick C. Petty



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