Re: Real vs available memory
Daniel Mayfield <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> 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 > > FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec 8 14:36:16 EST 2014 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Should I be running something else? > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"