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Date:      Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:53:26 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de>
To:        "Axel S. Gruner" <axel.gruner@suedfactoring.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 with 4GB RAM - memory ignored
Message-ID:  <20041119105220.M594@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041119073452.GD25108@pcs28.suedfactoring.de>
References:  <20041119073452.GD25108@pcs28.suedfactoring.de>

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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Axel S. Gruner wrote:

> Our new x345 Server with 1 XEON 2.8GHz CPU (second one will be built in
> next week) has 4GB RAM.
> I see the following message while the system is booting:
>
> "131072 of memory aboce 4GB ignored"
>
> Well, i will use all the memory i paid for ;-), so what will do the
> trick to use all of the memory on that box? I thought problems with
> large amount of memory >=4GB are gone with 5.3-STABLE.
>
> Thanks in advance.

You need to compile a custom kernel with

options         PAE

within the kernel config file.

Regards

Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de




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