Re: Real vs available memory

Peter Jeremy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hardware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2014-Dec-09 17:28:17 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 12/09/14 17:24, [email protected] wrote:
>> hmm my bad.
>> strange indeed to read hw.machine i386 when it's 64 bit capable.
>>
>
>Maybe you can build and install a 64-bit kernel only, and the re-boot, 
>but userspace will still be 64-bit :-)
(32-bit userland as later corrected).

This approach is fraught with gotchas and will bite you somewhere
uncomfortable.  When I last tried this (a year ago on 9.x), it couldn't get
to multi-user (though I didn't investigate in depth and just moved to amd64
userland).  Some of the known issues were dhclient, netstat and kdump.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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