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On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Ahmet SAVA=FFffffde wrote:

> Hi,
> I have one HP rx4640 server with 8 GB memory, but FreeBSD shows =20
> that real memory =3D 1001 MB.
>
> How can I fix this?

HP machines tend to have a sparse physical memory layout. This has
caused us some problems. To work around it we simply ignore any
memory above 4GB. There are patches that address this, but none
have been committed.

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
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