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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:17:13 -0600
From:      eculp@bafirst.com
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: avail memory is short by 1G on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE MP Dell
Message-ID:  <20051121131713.bakf4048too0osk0@mail.bafirst.com>
In-Reply-To: <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org>
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Quoting Paul Saab <ps@freebsd.org>:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>> I assume you are talking about the "phenomenon"  of RAM "missing" 
>> due to PCI and other I/O mapping into the 4GB address space?  What 
>> struck me about the OP is that the amount of RAM "missing" is more 
>> than I have ever seen due to this.  My systems are usually 3.4-3.6GB 
>> of RAM with 4GB installed, not 2.86GB (3005MB)...  So are we sure 
>> that the PCI space mapping is the problem?
>>
> Enable PAE and you'll get all your ram.

Done that but I am going to wait until early tomorrow morning to reboot 
because I want to get a verbose boot with this kernel and then try the 
PAE kernel, for whatever.

Thanks to all for your help,

ed




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