Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 05:33:58 -0400 From: Chip Norkus <wd@arpa.com> To: Ron Smith <ronnetron@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not seeing all my memory Message-ID: <20010824053358.D18267@anduril.org> In-Reply-To: <F116EBlR4TSZ04jyz8p00010aa1@hotmail.com>; from ronnetron@hotmail.com on Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:02:39AM -0700 References: <F116EBlR4TSZ04jyz8p00010aa1@hotmail.com>
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On Fri Aug 24, 2001; 02:02AM -0700 Ron Smith used 1.1K bytes of bandwidth to send the following: > Hi all, > > I'm mailing with a question about memory. I installed an additional 128MB of > memory to an existing 64MB. The BIOS recognizes the additional memory, but > the OS does *not*. I'm not finding anything in the normal docs on this > problem. Can someone point me in the right direction. I'd like to get the > system to recognize the additional RAM. Following is addition info: > > > bash-2.05$ uname -a says: > FreeBSD thor 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT > 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > > bash-2.05$ top says: > last pid: 65882; load averages: 0.26, 0.08, 0.02 up 9+05:33:20 > 01:49:04 > 50 processes: 2 running, 48 sleeping > CPU states: 7.8% user, 0.0% nice, 7.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 84.8% > idle > Mem: 57M Active, 23M Inact, 23M Wired, 4240K Cache, 29M Buf, 78M Free > Swap: 388M Total, 18M Used, 370M Free, 4% Inuse > 57+23+23+4+29+78 > 192 (64+128). Obviously some creative numbering, but it looks like the system sees all of your new memory. Incidentally, a better way to check and see how much memory the OS found is: dmesg | grep 'real mem', which for me says: real memory = 402587648 (393152K bytes) (meaning I have 384 megs of memory). Check that number, I'm sure it will say that you have 196608kb of real mem. > Ron Smith > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -wd -- chip norkus(rl); white_dragon('net'); wd@arpa.com "That's Tron. He fights for the users." http://telekinesis.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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