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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 20:04:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        list@zettai.net (george donnelly)
Cc:        FreeBSD Q's <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 4GB RAM limit?
Message-ID:  <200307020004.h6204EiX000176@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <BB2783B4.34F62%list@zettai.net> from "george donnelly" at Jul 01, 2003 06:30:13 PM

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> 
> hi
> 
> I've got a 4.7 freebsd machine and after upgrading from 4 to 6GB of RAM, top
> does not recogmize the other 2 GB (only shows 4) and actually there was a
> message that said "ignoring 2 GB".
> 
> Can anyone shed light on this or suggest where i can look to understand
> this?

I believe there is currently a 4 GByte limit to usable RAM, but I also 
believe I saw that it is planned to go up to something like 64 GB in a 
near future version.

Someone out there will know more specifically, I am sure.

////jerry

> 
> tia
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