Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:04:14 -0500 From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com> To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4 GB RAM but can only see 3 GB (HP 380) Message-ID: <436BA29E.1010500@freebsdsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <27C4235C84DAC79167E25186@palle.girgensohn.se> References: <27C4235C84DAC79167E25186@palle.girgensohn.se>
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When you go to 4gb of memory in this type of Server Board the bios will suck up about 1gb. If you put in 3gb it should be using 8mb. If you need more than 4gb, wrong Server. Regards, +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Lanny Baron Providing High Performance Rackmount Servers and RAID Storage Systems to the Open Source Community since 1999 Toll Free: 1.877.963.1900 http://www.FreeBSDsystems.COM +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi! > > Two different customers have bought a HP 380 server each, both with 4 GB > RAM, but FreeBSD can only see three of them. BIOS counts to 4 GB. I've > tried PAE, but it doesn't help. Any tips how I can make use of the last > 1GB? > > Both are SMP, dual Xeon CPU's. > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #2: Thu Aug 25 03:49:30 CEST 2005 > girgen@pingpong.hj.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HJKERNEL > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (3400.14-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 > > Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > > Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs > real memory = 3221172224 (3071 MB) > avail memory = 3150819328 (3004 MB) > ACPI APIC Table: <HP 00000083> > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 6 > ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard > ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard > ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 48-71 on motherboard > ioapic3 <Version 2.0> irqs 72-95 on motherboard > ioapic4 <Version 2.0> irqs 96-119 on motherboard > npx0: <math processor> on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > acpi0: <HP P51> on motherboard > acpi0: Power Button (fixed) > Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x908-0x90b on acpi0 > cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 > cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 > pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0 > pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 > pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci0 > pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 > pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci2 > pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 > bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem > 0xfdef0000-0xfdefffff irq 25 at device 1.0 on pci3 > miibus0: <MII bus> on bge0 > brgphy0: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus0 > brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > bge0: Ethernet address: 00:13:21:6b:77:51 > bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704C Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem > 0xfdee0000-0xfdeeffff irq 26 at device 1.1 on pci3 > miibus1: <MII bus> on bge1 > brgphy1: <BCM5704 10/100/1000baseTX PHY> on miibus1 > brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, > 1000baseTX-FDX, auto > bge1: Ethernet address: 00:13:21:6b:77:50 > pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci2 > pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 > ciss0: <HP Smart Array 6i> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff,0xfdff0000-0xfdff1fff irq 51 at device 3.0 on pci4 > pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 6.0 on pci0 > pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4 > pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci5 > pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5 > pcib6: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci5 > pci10: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib6 > uhci0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A> port 0x2000-0x201f > irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0 > usb0: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhci1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B> port 0x2020-0x203f > irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0 > usb1: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1 > usb1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhci2: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C> port 0x2040-0x205f > irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 > usb2: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2 > usb2: USB revision 1.0 > uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > uhci3: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D> port 0x2060-0x207f > irq 16 at device 29.3 on pci0 > usb3: <Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D> on uhci3 > usb3: USB revision 1.0 > uhub3: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached) > pcib7: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib7 > pci1: <display, VGA> at device 3.0 (no driver attached) > pci1: <base peripheral> at device 4.0 (no driver attached) > pci1: <base peripheral> at device 4.2 (no driver attached) > isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 > isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 > atapci0: <Intel ICH5 UDMA100 controller> port > 0x500-0x50f,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 31.1 on pci0 > ata0: channel #0 on atapci0 > ata1: channel #1 on atapci0 > acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0 > atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 > atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 > kbd0 at atkbd0 > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 > psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 > sio0: <Standard PC COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 > sio0: type 16550A > fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f2-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 > fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 > orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem > 0xee000-0xeffff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 > pmtimer0 on isa0 > ppc0: parallel port not found. > sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 > sio1: type 16550A > vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > acd0: DVDROM <DV-28E-N/C.6B> at ata0-master PIO4 > da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <COMPAQ RAID 5 VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 135.168MB/s transfers > da0: 138919MB (284506560 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 34866C) > SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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