Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: justin v <vic@yeaguy.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately Message-ID: <4CD3B00F.7030501@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <op.vlohuwhf82l4o8@hbca.yeaguy.com> References: <op.vlodtf0g82l4o8@hbca.yeaguy.com> <4CD36D68.5060100@radel.com> <op.vlohuwhf82l4o8@hbca.yeaguy.com>
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On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> wrote: > >> On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote: >>> >>> I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first >>> line after the splash menu thing: >>> >>> 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored >>> >>> dmesg shows avail mem amount and I am concerned as well: >>> >>> real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) >>> avail memory = 3139940352 (2994 MB) >>> >>> is a stick bad perhaps? >>> >> Start by reading >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory.html >> >> >> If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little >> information about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using. >> > > I would suggest you to give us the output of uname -a I suspect you are running the 32-bit version of FreeBSD and it cannot address more that 3 Gb of RAM. /Leslie
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