Re: Real vs available memory
Frank Seltzer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Daniel Mayfield wrote: > 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 frank_s@xxx:/home/frank_s % sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu' hw.machine: i386 hw.model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor hw.ncpu: 6 hw.machine_arch: i386 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"