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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:31:51 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
Cc:        Daniel Mayfield <dan@3geeks.org>, "Wolff, Nicholas \(Nick\)" <nwolff@oar.net>, patpro@patpro.net, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Real vs available memory
Message-ID:  <20141210063151.GE92742@server.rulingia.com>
In-Reply-To: <54872321.9020205@selasky.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> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091107120.1004@Ace.nina.org> <F237E79D-D533-492E-ABC2-625C2B8C2E77@patpro.net> <D0AC8AC2.12F88%wolff.261@osu.edu> <6D0C0CB6-8B4E-41F4-B684-FA7A65BEA535@patpro.net> <54872321.9020205@selasky.org>

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On 2014-Dec-09 17:28:17 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> wrote:
>On 12/09/14 17:24, patpro@patpro.net wrote:
>> hmm my bad.
>> strange indeed to read hw.machine i386 when it's 64 bit capable.
>>
>
>Maybe you can build and install a 64-bit kernel only, and the re-boot,=20
>but userspace will still be 64-bit :-)
(32-bit userland as later corrected).

This approach is fraught with gotchas and will bite you somewhere
uncomfortable.  When I last tried this (a year ago on 9.x), it couldn't get
to multi-user (though I didn't investigate in depth and just moved to amd64
userland).  Some of the known issues were dhclient, netstat and kdump.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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