From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 5 23:34:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AC2106564A for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:34:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vic@yeaguy.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F578FC0C for ; Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:34:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=NFUeGz0loTdi/T6hXKngYYtckjed7x3pKvNOqmBBK18= c=1 sm=0 a=UCLC2FDiInsA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=K3oiwSFwsX5fJWoDMELOCw==:17 a=lM4-zUH5AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=iOhrDboYAAAA:8 a=-5WMeQcgAAAA:8 a=A7Wvaz8EAAAA:8 a=wRFe621eAWnfiSMYs1gA:9 a=nb0vaYEqt8uIzJtaExgA:7 a=BbLL7AX688anDuNuhP2PSfoikloA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=tc2ICF-Aw_EA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=-_C46MR6lL4A:10 a=5KDeGo4aUKgA:10 a=K3oiwSFwsX5fJWoDMELOCw==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.49.120.184 Received: from [67.49.120.184] ([67.49.120.184:34628] helo=hbca.yeaguy.com) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 17/9C-12606-19494DC4; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:34:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Robert Bonomi" References: <201011052229.oA5MTZVp022783@mail.r-bonomi.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:34:38 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "justin v" Organization: Yea_Guy Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201011052229.oA5MTZVp022783@mail.r-bonomi.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.61 (FreeBSD) Cc: Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:34:43 -0000 On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:35 -0700, Robert Bonomi 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 >> To: justin v >> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , >> Jon Radel >> 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 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/