From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 18:32:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB30116A419 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:32:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D8643D48 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:32:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D3A1A4E56; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 421095169C; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:32:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:32:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Odhiambo Washington , Beech Rintoul , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060417183246.GA93458@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> <200604161240.45303.beech@mangohealth.org> <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060417075230.GG48793@ns2.wananchi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:32:51 -0000 --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:52:30AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > | > > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > | > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > | > > | > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. > | > > | > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to acce= ss > | > more than 2GB RAM. > | > > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > | > the full 4GB RAM. > |=20 > | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new= server=20 > | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should=20 > | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer probl= ems. >=20 > If it were not that I really respect your name.... ;) > Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All=20 > my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there=20 > is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which > I am not afraid to do. >=20 > Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? I'm not aware of any special steps required. Does 6.x see the extra RAM? Kris --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEQ99OWry0BWjoQKURAgG9AJ9uOpvpN1UwFa8rcERp3QAqD3Gx/gCgr+5n wBsfZn9QzMt3W0vPMrRKL2c= =qW2l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X--