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From: "Justin V." <vic@yeaguy.com>
To: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
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Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote:

>
>
> On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> 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
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yep running 32-bit and have a 686.  No PAE happening.  oh well.

i wasnt sure if id run into any compatiblity issues..  i have this server 
running how i want, no issues, so, 32bit OS with 3GB ram will do...

thanks for the response.