From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 26 6:11:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5190137B401 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:11:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE7A43E88 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:11:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <20021126141130002004forke>; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:11:30 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAQEBUcB033652 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:11:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAQEBUE1033649; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:11:30 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD detecting less than total memory References: <20021125025712.L23803-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 26 Nov 2002 09:11:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20021125025712.L23803-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> Message-ID: <44vg2kh14e.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Culver writes: > Hi, > I'm running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE as of a couple of days ago... and > it seems that FreeBSD is not detecting the total amount of ram that I have > on my system. I have 512M but here's my dmesg (where memory is concerned: > > real memory = 402669568 (393232K bytes) > Physical memory chunk(s): > 0x00001000 - 0x0009ffff, 651264 bytes (159 pages) > 0x004ad000 - 0x17ffbfff, 397733888 bytes (97103 pages) > avail memory = 386895872 (377828K bytes) > > This is much less than what is really available. /boot/loader detects the > proper amount, but for some reason the kernel won't. Any ideas? Did you try telling it explicitly, as recommended in the FAQ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message