kern/147338: System sees only half of the memory installed

[Garrett Cooper]

The following reply was made to PR kern/147338; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
To: "Micha&#322, Chojnowski" <mchojno at iem.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/147338: System sees only half of the memory installed
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:50:37 -0700

 On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Micha&#322; Chojnowski
 <mchojno at iem.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
 >
 >>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 147338
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 kern
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 System sees only half of the memory installed
 >>Confidential: =A0 no
 >>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 serious
 >>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 medium
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0freebsd-bugs
 >>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
 >>Quarter:
 >>Keywords:
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id: =A0 current-users
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Wed Jun 02 19:10:04 UTC 2010
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator: =A0 =A0 Micha&#322; Chojnowski
 >>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A08.0-RELEASE-p2
 >>Organization:
 > Warsaw University Of Technology
 >>Environment:
 > FreeBSD dok5-o 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #4: Thu Jan =A07 09:=
 20:42 PST 2010 =A0 =A0 root at build8x32.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/pcbsd-build80/=
 fbsd-source/8.0-src/sys/PCBSD =A0i386
 >>Description:
 >
 > The hardware of my workstation is based on ASUS P5LD2-SE motherboard. If =
 I install 2x512MB of RAM, the dmesg says that installed memory is 1GB but a=
 vailable only 512MB. On the other hand, if I install 4x512MB the message is=
  2GB installed and 1GB available. Always the half of the memory installed. =
 The motherboard has four DIMMs, all filled.
 >
 > Many thanks in advance for any help.
 
 Unfortunately this is PCBSD, so you should talk to the PCBSD folks
 about this issue.
 Thanks,
 -Garrett