Re: Real vs available memory

Mike Tancsa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware
Organization Sentex Communications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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




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