Does ULE restrict available RAM?

[Josh Paetzel]

On Thursday 19 August 2010 04:03:40 Denis Melnikov wrote:
> Hi!
> 7.0-RELEASE (amd64)
> RAM 33 GB (8*4096+2*512)
> 2 quad-core Xeons
> 
> The server ran GENERIC kernel with 4BSD scheduler earlier. When loaded
> with ULE scheduler it has missed 8GB.
> 
> dmesg:
> usable memory = 26829983744 (25587 MB)
> avail memory  = 25999904768 (24795 MB)
> 
> # dmidecode -t 17 | grep Size
>         Size: 512 MB
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: No Module Installed
>         Size: 512 MB
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: No Module Installed
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: No Module Installed
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: 4096 MB
>         Size: No Module Installed
> 
> It looks like BIOS-level problem, but... maybe ULE restricts RAM?
> 
> Hopefully,
> Denis

How much RAM does the BIOS report present?

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
FreeBSD -- The power to serve
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