Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:07:58 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net> To: Daniel Mayfield <dan@3geeks.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real vs available memory Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091107120.1004@Ace.nina.org> In-Reply-To: <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091010320.1004@Ace.nina.org> <54871680.6060705@sentex.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091058220.1004@Ace.nina.org> <33800656-9F95-489B-9A0B-72102C685E6D@3geeks.org>
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Daniel Mayfield wrote: > Run this command: > > sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu? > > If you see ?amd64? in there, you want the 64 bit (amd64) version of FreeBSD. If you don?t, you?re out of luck. > > Dan > > On 9Dec 2014, at 11:00, Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> 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 frank_s@xxx:/home/frank_s % sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' hw.machine: i386 hw.model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor hw.ncpu: 6 hw.machine_arch: i386
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