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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