Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:29:35 -0600 (CST) From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately Message-ID: <201011052229.oA5MTZVp022783@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 5 01:18:07 2010 > 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 > > > > 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. Must be a hardware issue, too. I'm running 7.2/i386 on a P-III box, and the boot messages shows 3.9+ gigs 'avail mem'. I double-checked, no mention of PAE in the kernel config, either.
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