Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 11:00:29 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Seltzer <frank_s@bellsouth.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Real vs available memory Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091058220.1004@Ace.nina.org> In-Reply-To: <54871680.6060705@sentex.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412091010320.1004@Ace.nina.org> <54871680.6060705@sentex.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?
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