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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:33:33 +0000
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To: Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: Real vs available memory
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Frank Seltzer wrote:
> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I have=20
> added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The system BIOS=20
> sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD but I get this=
=20
> during boot.
>=20
> real memory  =3D 8589934592 (8192 MB)
> avail memory =3D 3400794112 (3243 MB)
>=20
> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?

You haven't posted a "uname -a" so I can't be sure, but I'd guess you've
installed FreeBSD i386 which is 32-bit and need to reinstall with amd64.

-- Brooks

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