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Subject: RE: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram
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=20
> Date: Thu=2C 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200
> From: stark@mapper.nl
> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org=3B freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> CC:=20
> Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram
>=20
> Hello=2C
>=20
> I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64.
> However=2C it does not seem to be able to use all my ram.
> Strangely enough=2C it says the following:
> [root@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory
> real memory =3D 2147483648 (2048 MB)
> avail memory =3D 4112240640 (3921 MB)
>=20
> and
> [root@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem
> [/snip]
> hw.physmem: 4277510144
> hw.usermem: 3954216960
> hw.realmem: 4831838208
> [/snip]
>=20
> I'm still on a fresh install with a generic kernel.
> Any ideas as to what might be going on?
> greetz=2C
> Mark
>=20
>=20
need to enable PAE mode in the kernel