Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:49:22 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> Subject: Re: real memory falsely reports 8G, BIOS & avail memory reports 1G Message-ID: <201008171149.o7HBnMtp065687@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:11:11 EDT." <201008161611.11974.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday, August 09, 2010 8:13:03 am Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi hackers@freebsd.org > > A laptop here emits a puzzlingly dmesg to both 8.1-RC2 & 8.1-RELEASE: > > real memory = 8572108800 (8175 MB) > > avail memory = 1018789888 (971 MB) > > BIOS reckons it has 1G. No panel to unscrew to inspect memory. > > I don't beleive 8G. > > > > If this is a bug in FreeBSD detect code ? > > I am ready to run test kernel patches againt 8.1-RELEASE > > & report back if anyone has code. > > (I have room to install a current too if necessary) > > > > Full dmesg here: > > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/dmesg/ > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > Hmm, do you have dmidecode output? Hi, Thanks for interest, Yes here http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/dmidecode/ PS Paul Wootton <paul@fletchermoorland.co.uk> just mailed me how to physically get to look at the RAM; I will do that & reports back. http://www.overclockers.com/tips1192/index02.asp Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML, quoted-printable & base 64 dumped with spam. Avoid top posting, It cripples itemised cumulative responses.
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