Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:04:37 -0500 From: Daniel Mayfield <dan@3geeks.org> To: Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real vs available memory Message-ID: <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091058220.1004@Ace.nina.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091010320.1004@Ace.nina.org> <54871680.6060705@sentex.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091058220.1004@Ace.nina.org>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
Run this command: sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu’ If you see “amd64” in there, you want the 64 bit (amd64) version of FreeBSD. If you don’t, you’re out of luck. Dan On 9Dec 2014, at 11:00, Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> On 12/9/2014 10:19 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote: >>> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory. I have >>> added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it. The system BIOS >>> sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD but I get this >>> during boot. >>> real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB) >>> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB) >>> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs? >> >> >> What does >> uname -a >> show ? Are you by chance running i386 inadvertently ? >> >> ---Mike > > FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec 8 14:36:16 EST 2014 frank_s@xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Should I be running something else? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D>