Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:13 -0600 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: avail memory is short by 1G on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE MP Dell Message-ID: <20051121131713.bakf4048too0osk0@mail.bafirst.com> In-Reply-To: <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org> References: <20051120183309.ysgk624asksckwow@mail.bafirst.com> <20051121004749.GA39061@xor.obsecurity.org> <43812AC7.3020506@rogers.com> <20051121020816.GA19252@xor.obsecurity.org> <C033B3B6-12A3-4428-A6B4-B51C6B09EB26@shire.net> <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org>
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Quoting Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: >> I assume you are talking about the "phenomenon" of RAM "missing" >> due to PCI and other I/O mapping into the 4GB address space? What >> struck me about the OP is that the amount of RAM "missing" is more >> than I have ever seen due to this. My systems are usually 3.4-3.6GB >> of RAM with 4GB installed, not 2.86GB (3005MB)... So are we sure >> that the PCI space mapping is the problem? >> > Enable PAE and you'll get all your ram. Done that but I am going to wait until early tomorrow morning to reboot because I want to get a verbose boot with this kernel and then try the PAE kernel, for whatever. Thanks to all for your help, ed
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