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From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD displaying my RAM correctly?
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On 8/27/05, Robert G. <rob5g@adelphia.net> wrote:
> I have a couple of years old Gateway computer I installed FreeBSD on.
> It came with a P4 2.26GHz CPU (which it recognizes correctly), but when
> I check out /var/boot/dmesg.today I see the following:
>=20
> real memory  =3D 536608768 (511 MB)
> avail memory =3D 519630848 (495 MB)
>=20
> Does this mean it's only recognizing about 512MB of RAM, or am I
> interpreting it wrong?
>=20

Yes, should their be more? What's the chipset on the board, i845 with ICH4?

 536,608,768
-519,630,848
--------------------
   16,977,920 =3D Kernel took it.