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From: Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net>
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> On 12/9/2014 10:19 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote:
>> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I have
>> added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The system BIOS
>> sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD but I get this
>> during boot.
>> 
>> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
>> 
>> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?
>
>
> What does
> uname -a
> show ? Are you by chance running i386 inadvertently ?
>
> 	---Mike

FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec 8 
14:36:16 EST 2014 frank_s@xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

Should I be running something else?