Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:39:22 -0400 From: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: <stark@mapper.nl>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram Message-ID: <BAY126-W117ACB7E4B99B22667CCD6CA050@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl> References: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl>
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> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200 > From: stark@mapper.nl > To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > CC: > Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram > > Hello, > > I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. > However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. > Strangely enough, it says the following: > [root@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory > real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) > avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB) > > and > [root@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem > [/snip] > hw.physmem: 4277510144 > hw.usermem: 3954216960 > hw.realmem: 4831838208 > [/snip] > > I'm still on a fresh install with a generic kernel. > Any ideas as to what might be going on? > greetz, > Mark > > need to enable PAE mode in the kernelhelp
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