Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:18 +0200 From: Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl> To: rick-freebsd2008@kiwi-computer.com Cc: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram Message-ID: <4A850E52.6090901@mapper.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <4A83F9DE.3020406@mapper.nl> <20090814065935.GA92666@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote: > >> I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. >> However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. >> Strangely enough, it says the following: >> [root@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory >> real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) >> avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB) >> >> and >> [root@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem >> [/snip] >> hw.physmem: 4277510144 >> hw.usermem: 3954216960 >> hw.realmem: 4831838208 >> [/snip] >> > > Are you sure you're using amd64 and not i386? > I'm very, very, very sure :-) my uname -a ends with "amd64". Besides, if I wasn't I still should have more then 2G of "real memory". The whole 2048M is just to good to be true (who has exactly 2^x bytes of memory really?) > % uname -a > FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0 r196086: Sat Aug 8 17:22:29 CDT 2009 root@myhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > % sysctl -a | grep hw.....mem > hw.physmem: 8571977728 > hw.usermem: 7794733056 > hw.realmem: 9395240960 > > What motherboard/CPU? What does the BIOS report for memory? Let's see > the first part of dmesg from a verbose boot. > I own a DFI Lanparty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ BIOS reports (around) 4GiB Gentoo reports appr. 2.9GiB *cough* Windows *cough* reports 4GiB I'll get on the dmesg once I get home. Greetz, Mark [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqFDlgACgkQN9xNqOOVnWA16ACfasQ2ImMMk4dX5k0wxS83WbDr 0TsAn0WBoa4+BrJat8GD+zZ19q+wl/u2 =zygS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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