Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:02:38 -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: <20051121170238.45y62menj4gcgkc0@mail.bafirst.com> In-Reply-To: <20051121204018.GC760@pato.euesrg02.net> References: <20051120183309.ysgk624asksckwow@mail.bafirst.com> <20051121004749.GA39061@xor.obsecurity.org> <43812AC7.3020506@rogers.com> <20051121020816.GA19252@xor.obsecurity.org> <C033B3B6-12A3-4428-A6B4-B51C6B09EB26@shire.net> <438136B5.9030506@freebsd.org> <20051121030915.GC41629@dan.emsphone.com> <43813BBE.2010302@freebsd.org> <20051121034025.GD41629@dan.emsphone.com> <20051121131114.p7ed53lnkk4ckk4w@mail.bafirst.com> <20051121204018.GC760@pato.euesrg02.net>
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Quoting Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net>: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:11:14PM -0600, eculp@bafirst.com wrote: >> Thanks to all who have answered and I apologize for not finding this >> when searching google. I obviously needed to filter it more. As >> always now that I know what the problem probably is it is easy. >> >> I'm currently building kernel with PAE although it does make me a bit >> nervious to remotely reboot. I think I will first reboot enabling >> verbose with the debug.bootverbose sysctl variable since I only have >> remote access to the machine and no serial console. >> >> I will report back this weekend after rebooting with the PAE kernel >> that will hopefully work as expected. > > You can use nextboot(8) to try the new kernel in a 'safe' way. I had never seen nexboot. Neat. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip, Victor. ed
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