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Subject: Re: avail memory is short by 1G on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE MP Dell
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On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Daniel Rock wrote:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC schrieb:
> > Yes, but in your case the real memory is > 4gb so of course the   
> amount
> > mapped would be less.  I have never seen on any of my   
> motherboards, >
> > 1Gb getting mapped when the physical memory is only 4GB
>
> The real memory is *exactly* 4GB. The FreeBSD boot messages are  
> confusing:
> "real memory" just means "highest memory location".

Your real "physical" memory showed in the examples (which I have  
since deleted) to be in the 5000 or 6000MB range if I read it correctly

Chad

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>
> Daniel

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