Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:36:15 -0800 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Daniel Mayfield <dan@3geeks.org> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Real vs available memory Message-ID: <CAOgwaMvjYQS5a8LTGtGADu8h1rtcbfO6o-DCD-u-UydcA96YRw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091010320.1004@Ace.nina.org> <54871680.6060705@sentex.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091058220.1004@Ace.nina.org> <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org>
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Daniel Mayfield <dan@3geeks.org> wrote: > 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" > > If "amd54" does not appear , i386 PAE ( which is 36 bits means up to 64 Giga Bytes ) may be used . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturkhome | help
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