From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 02:35:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9B81065670 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 02:35:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F83C8FC12 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 02:35:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 9903198; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:35:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.43.221] (account jon@radel.com HELO braeburn.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP-TLS id 9903196; Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:35:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4CD36D68.5060100@radel.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:35:20 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justin v References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms040408080207010202090508" X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately 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: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:35:35 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms040408080207010202090508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: > > I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first=20 > line after the splash menu thing: > > 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored > > dmesg shows avail mem amount and I am concerned as well: > > real memory =3D 4294967296 (4096 MB) > avail memory =3D 3139940352 (2994 MB) > > is a stick bad perhaps? > Start by reading=20 http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory= =2Ehtml If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little=20 information about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using. --=20 --Jon Radel jon@radel.com --------------ms040408080207010202090508--