From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 07:13:01 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2C33B963 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (vps.rulingia.com [103.243.244.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps.rulingia.com", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B6906EBE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.rulingia.com (c220-239-242-83.belrs5.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.242.83]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBA6W0wV069914 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:32:06 +1100 (AEDT) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.rulingia.com (localhost.rulingia.com [127.0.0.1]) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBA6Vtkd096462 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:31:55 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) id sBA6Vpdk096461; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:31:51 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:31:51 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: Real vs available memory Message-ID: <20141210063151.GE92742@server.rulingia.com> References: <54871680.6060705@sentex.net> <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org> <6D0C0CB6-8B4E-41F4-B684-FA7A65BEA535@patpro.net> <54872321.9020205@selasky.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54872321.9020205@selasky.org> X-PGP-Key: http://www.rulingia.com/keys/peter.pgp User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Daniel Mayfield , "Wolff, Nicholas \(Nick\)" , patpro@patpro.net, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:13:01 -0000 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2014-Dec-09 17:28:17 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky 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 --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUh+jXXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFRUIyOTg2QzMwNjcxRTc0RTY1QzIyN0Ux NkE1OTdBMEU0QTIwQjM0AAoJEBall6Dkogs0yrkQAIQgP5TKfooETc/wm1MpHNJv vBPrDZXLnOjbVNJLIMN/8nSSNSmo2ys3CJwbnvx/q4D2A/Qo3uq+xXfklFn8AL/w AXCOrhAp+LI38MIqt2OyrsawS0NoDLUVwucaYmhMkex/VlkcHuaoqpk1nHPNndCq g37MwcWsNmX8oY8+n8AhQzo7zF6i6BFdkf5Os8CH0mhXrIwezcBZVggsWQ9qaeDq ZOdaYbPH82sRxHnrItbdQeskNV0QOfmN8wYSFRliAxY+CgbVVkwyqlom5i3mswQT 1A9C17ByPd5aHA7whAGsd4fCVfQtUbNAcrYjmGj9ZZzjzlVNXmZxO7i5YZRnLGLN 7HfzeNmelMh61k011MKkKiEyOEEDPnqDjENiTmYlqeH4X5ltIzX7OKCToc38Krmf PGAqDcEyrMnPuKrNwlZTjG1s/pOIcWQZs3ZBXqjo04Ln6k+GKo5l7baixCwXJ3Du /KATTEijJh2KUSOX1XxTvvnF3P5zZF/WUHDgsSWng5N8wDOtENptHylRPkSJcFXI /EBIlFha2AbvOU7GDlJizCpYT5fMESdUfBBq5S6s5Xla1LfMCjXjAkUYxiBS80MZ 6HCk2TltQP7BnQVmzLx2Ybl5eIymYzXrobRLUF1ddvOCwlSITRgdrWxY1LCR3z8k irZGmHmjelY+2mEO0QIJ =3fnO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vtzGhvizbBRQ85DL--