From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 19:17:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64D316A421 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from bafirst.com (72-12-2-214.wan.networktel.net [72.12.2.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1F943D6E for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:17:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by bafirst.com with local; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:13 -0600 id 0009580F.43821D39.0000608F Received: from local4.local.net (local4.local.net [192.168.1.4]) by mail.bafirst.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:13 -0600 Message-ID: <20051121131713.bakf4048too0osk0@mail.bafirst.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:13 -0600 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20051120183309.ysgk624asksckwow@mail.bafirst.com> <20051121004749.GA39061@xor.obsecurity.org> <43812AC7.3020506@rogers.com> <20051121020816.GA19252@xor.obsecurity.org> <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.1-cvs Subject: Re: avail memory is short by 1G on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE MP Dell X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:17:22 -0000 Quoting Paul Saab : > 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