From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 22 09:33:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F6816A40A for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:33:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: from mxfep03.bredband.com (mxfep03.bredband.com [195.54.107.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE64C13C44C for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:33:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: from ironport2.bredband.com ([195.54.107.84] [195.54.107.84]) by mxfep03.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20070422093306.TRYJ23113.mxfep03.bredband.com@ironport2.bredband.com> for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:33:06 +0200 Received: from ua-83-227-181-30.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO mailbox.gneto.com) ([83.227.181.30]) by ironport2.bredband.com with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 22 Apr 2007 11:33:02 +0200 Received: from euklides.gneto.com (euklides.gneto.com [192.168.10.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailbox.gneto.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E389728402; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:32:33 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <462B2BAC.7010800@gneto.com> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:32:28 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Artem Kuchin References: <004b01c78421$062195c0$0c00a8c0@Artem> <462A78F5.3090904@samsco.org> <001e01c784be$9b969c20$0c00a8c0@Artem> In-Reply-To: <001e01c784be$9b969c20$0c00a8c0@Artem> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAE does not give any ram increase, why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:33:08 -0000 Artem Kuchin wrote: >>> the number do not change with or without PAE > > No need, i know this stuff. Hmmm :-) > Problem is that asus p5p800-vm bios does not have such option > (no memory remapping support in chipset) > , so, and simply assumed that in PAE mode this simply > does not matter and it will give me whole 4GB. Isn't it so? > Is it true for 64bit mode (amd64)? That is a desktop board with an old desktop chipset, it will not remap anything over 4GB even if you are running 64-bit mode. It does most certainly not support PAE mode. Be happy that it is just 256MB memory that you can't use, it is not uncommon to loose up to 750MB! Best Regards, Martin