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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:01:13 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>,  "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dual Opterons don't see all memory
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920709262101y6fe083c6ta46ce795ab75ce06@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <DF52D4C2-523B-48E4-957A-01FB81C80FC3@CS.UCLA.EDU> <46FB2A26.8040507@pacific.net.sg>

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I have the same problem on a intel duo x6850 what options/flags do I
need to set in /usr/src/Makefile and/or /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
to make it compile 64 bit not 32?

--Aryeh

PS I think some of the nvidia issues I have posted might be due to this

On 9/27/07, Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Eric Osterweil wrote:
>
> > make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB of it.
> >
> > Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB?
> >
> > FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
>
> this looks like a 32 bit binary to me.
>
> You either need a 64 bit binary or you need to enable PAE.
>
> Just build a custom kernel for 64 bits.
>
> > real memory  = 4227792896 (4031 MB)
> > avail memory = 4139991040 (3948 MB)
>
> Erich
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