From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 07:19:52 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 A423A106564A for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leslie@eskk.nu) Received: from mail.gelita.se (212-162-182-244.skbbip.com [212.162.182.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D97A8FC21 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:19:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gelita.se (localhost.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF1D10EDFF; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:20:51 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at troback.com Received: from mail.gelita.se ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.gelita.se (mail.gelita.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Q-WQf1bLVESp; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:20:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from bljbsd01.no-ip.org (c-195-216-040-164.static.bjare.net [195.216.40.164]) by mail.gelita.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E323610E50A; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:20:44 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4CD3B00F.7030501@eskk.nu> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; sv-SE; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101029 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: justin v References: <4CD36D68.5060100@radel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Jon Radel 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 07:19:52 -0000 On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel wrote: > >> On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: >>> >>> I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first >>> 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 = 4294967296 (4096 MB) >>> avail memory = 3139940352 (2994 MB) >>> >>> is a stick bad perhaps? >>> >> Start by reading >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory.html >> >> >> If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little >> information about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using. >> > > I would suggest you to give us the output of uname -a I suspect you are running the 32-bit version of FreeBSD and it cannot address more that 3 Gb of RAM. /Leslie