avail memory is short by 1G on my FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE MP Dell

[eculp at bafirst.com]

Quoting Victor Balada Diaz <victor at bsdes.net>:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:11:14PM -0600, eculp at bafirst.com wrote:
>> Thanks to all who have answered and I apologize for not finding this
>> when searching google.  I obviously needed to filter it more.  As
>> always now that I know what the problem probably is it is easy.
>>
>> I'm currently building kernel with PAE although it does make me a bit
>> nervious to remotely reboot.   I think I will first reboot enabling
>> verbose with the debug.bootverbose sysctl variable since I only have
>> remote access to the machine and no  serial console.
>>
>> I will report back this weekend after rebooting with the PAE kernel
>> that will hopefully work as expected.
>
> You can use nextboot(8) to try the new kernel in a 'safe' way.

I had never seen nexboot.  Neat.  I'm going to give it a try.

Thanks for the tip, Victor. ed