From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 9 12:44:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 031071065674 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 858DB8FC1C for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A30D4.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.48.212]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o79CidXi068503 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:44:40 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o79CiV98039003 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:44:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o79CiQNR061713 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:44:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201008091244.o79CiQNR061713@fire.js.berklix.net> to: hackers@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:13:03 +0200." <201008091213.o79CD3I6061232@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:44:26 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Subject: Re: real memory falsely reports 8G, BIOS & avail memory reports 1G X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:44:42 -0000 > A laptop here emits a puzzlingly dmesg to both 8.1-RC2 & 8.1-RELEASE: > real memory = 8572108800 (8175 MB) > avail memory = 1018789888 (971 MB) > BIOS reckons it has 1G. No panel to unscrew to inspect memory. > I don't beleive 8G. PS sysctl -a | grep mem vm.kmem_size_scale: 3 vm.kmem_size_max: 329853485875 vm.kmem_size_min: 0 vm.kmem_size: 342405120 vfs.ufs.dirhash_lowmemcount: 4 vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem: 77734 vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem: 2097152 debug.fwmem_debug: 0 hw.physmem: 1059000320 hw.usermem: 812683264 hw.realmem: 1073676288 hw.firewire.fwmem.speed: 2 hw.firewire.fwmem.eui64_lo: 0 hw.firewire.fwmem.eui64_hi: 0 hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376 hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648 p1003_1b.memlock: 0 p1003_1b.memlock_range: 0 p1003_1b.memory_protection: 0 p1003_1b.shared_memory_objects: 1 compat.ia32.maxvmem: 0 compat.linux32.maxvmem: 0 top: last pid: 49679; load averages: 1.23, 1.18, 0.90 up 0+03:52:44 14:42:40 91 processes: 2 running, 88 sleeping, 1 stopped CPU: 91.4% user, 0.0% nice, 8.6% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle Mem: 186M Active, 444M Inact, 237M Wired, 5564K Cache, 111M Buf, 107M Free Swap: 3072M Total, 3072M Free Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail in plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.