Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:31:04 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.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: <20090814093104.GG1884@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <4A851556.7030808@mapper.nl> References: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl> <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <4A850E52.6090901@mapper.nl> <b41c75520908140027t2860bf44l6dce874150be8edf@mail.gmail.com> <4A851556.7030808@mapper.nl>
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--Eh0RuzC+m21dSE70 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:42:14AM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote: > Claus Guttesen wrote: > >> BIOS reports (around) 4GiB > >> Gentoo reports appr. 2.9GiB > >> *cough* Windows *cough* reports 4GiB > >> I'll get on the dmesg once I get home. > >> Greetz, > >> Mark > >> =20 > > > > You might want to try to download an image from memtest.org. > > > > =20 > I actually made a typo... > Gentoo reports 3.9GiB (bad type I know) > My memory is fine. It's been running very, very stable for over 2 years. > I've been searching the net, and I think Kostik is right, it's just a > "cosmetic" info message in early boot, but still, sloppy... > So I will do the verbose boot and post dmesg here. I do think it is > strange that it states that I have the exact amount of 2 Gibibyte of > "real memory" in dmesg. > Could it be a limitation of my motherboard driver? > I can't imagine it's like this on all amd64 systems... Someone might > have said something right? > In any way I'll post the verbose boot logging here tonight/tomorrow when > I get home from work. > greetz, > Mark >=20 The "real memory" line is what smbios parser parsed. Value reported on the "available memory" line is the actual amount of memory kernel detected and is going to use. "Real memory" value is used only to display that "real memory" line. I do agree that the printout is very confusing, and I suspect that our smbios parser has a bug. Contact jkim@, who is the author of r190599, that introduced this behaviour. --Eh0RuzC+m21dSE70 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqFLtgACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4ismACg0JVnn4IfJ8B2dqizlWD0hMMJ b2UAn1ZGY4dmzKtDRNeGaSCm2zvePY+4 =HgVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Eh0RuzC+m21dSE70--
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