Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:48 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060417144731.029b7d98@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20060416191820.GA7226@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB
useable by the system.
-Derek
At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, 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 access
>more than 2GB RAM.
>
>I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see
>the full 4GB RAM.
>
>
>-Wash
>
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