Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:34:38 -0700 From: "justin v" <vic@yeaguy.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately Message-ID: <op.vlp030os82l4o8@hbca.yeaguy.com> In-Reply-To: <201011052229.oA5MTZVp022783@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201011052229.oA5MTZVp022783@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:35 -0700, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 01:18:07 2010 >> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100 >> From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> >> To: justin v <vic@yeaguy.com> >> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, >> Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> >> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately >> >> >> >> 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. > > Must be a hardware issue, too. I'm running 7.2/i386 on a P-III box, and > the boot messages shows 3.9+ gigs 'avail mem'. I double-checked, no > mention > of PAE in the kernel config, either. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I running 32bit OS.. i should have run 64bit actually.. I forgot about the memory limitations with 32bit os. -- Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
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