From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 08:48:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2992B16A4DF for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from krassi@bulinfo.net) Received: from mx.bulinfo.net (mx.bulinfo.net [193.194.156.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C0F43D7F for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:48:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krassi@bulinfo.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.bulinfo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E0511DB8A; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:48:29 +0300 (EEST) Received: from mx.bulinfo.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx.bulinfo.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84000-02; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:48:25 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.2.188] (pythia.bulinfo.net [212.72.195.5]) by mx.bulinfo.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C1B1DB4F; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 11:48:25 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <44D9A0E9.30608@bulinfo.net> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:46:33 +0300 From: Krassimir Slavchev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <200608090841.k798fvVW085838@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <200608090841.k798fvVW085838@fire.jhs.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mx.bulinfo.net Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real and available memory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:48:39 -0000 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Krassimir Slavchev wrote: > >> Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> >>> Krassimir Slavchev wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have Vortex86-6082 with 128Mb AMI bios. >>>> >>>> Why the kernel reports only 80 MB available memory? >>>> Is this related to BIOS or kernel settings? >>>> >>>> dmesg output: >>>> >>>> Copyright (c) 1992-2006 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 6.1-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 26 10:09:06 EEST 2006 >>>> root@krassi:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TINYBSD >>>> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 >>>> CPU: Pentium (166.61-MHz 586-class CPU) >>>> Origin = "SiS SiS SiS " Id = 0x505 >>>> real memory = 125829120 (120 MB) >>>> avail memory = 84332544 (80 MB) >>>> kbd1 at kbdmux0 >>>> ... >>>> >>>> >>> Does the mboard BIOS on monitor at boot recognise all 128 M ? >>> >>> I've seen boards that only recognised 1/4 of the SIM size. >>> 80 seems a bit of an odd (non hex) number though. >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, at boot the board recognizes 128Mb. The RAM is embedded on the board. >> The kernel reports real 120 Mb because maybe 8 Mb is used by video card. >> I don't know why exact 80Mb is reported but 80 = 64+16. >> > > Have you tried unplugging every board (inc. ethernet scsi raid etc) > & plugging in a different (modest, old as possible. less demanding) > graphic card ? Maybe that'd give a clue, maybe your graphics card > is taking more than 8M ? > > No, I can't unplug anything, see: http://www.icop.com.tw/products_detail.asp?ProductID=119