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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 13:21:00 -0400
From:      OCD Support <support@kawartha.com>
To:        "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.1-RELEASE not seeing all the RAM
Message-ID:  <3742F2FC.47016B17@kawartha.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905191258191.3113-100000@mail.intercom.com>

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That's really strange as we have a 3.1-RELEASE running here on a Pentium Pro
200 w/515k cache and it finds all the memory properly... wondering if maybe
it's a motherboard issue?  Just an offthewall guess...:)

Paul

"Jason J. Horton" wrote:

>  I have a 3.1-RELEASE box running, and it keeps
> running out of memory. The odd thing is 'dmesg'
> shows the machine having 16M of RAM, while
> BIOS shows 128M... The system is a PPro 200mHz
> running a GENERIC kernel. 'dmesg' output below.
> Are there any known issues as to why the kernel
> would not see all the RAM?
>
> FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999
>     jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 199432716 Hz
> CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x619  Stepping=9
>
> Features=0xf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV>
> real memory  = 15728640 (15360K bytes)
> avail memory = 12288000 (12000K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf0340000.
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> chip0: <Intel 82440FX (Natoma) PCI and memory controller> rev 0x02 on
> pci0.0.0
> chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
> ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX3 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1
> ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.11.0
> ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
> fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> rev 0x05 int a irq 10 on
> pci0.17.0
>
>         -Jason J. Horton <jason@intercom.com>
>          Man of Mystery
>          Intercom Online Inc.
>          212.378.2202 | http://www.intercom.com
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