memory above 4Gb ignored

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

you might check your bios settings for some weird memory reallocation
but otherwise file a PR on this.

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Sparrevohn" <thomas.sparrevohn at btinternet.com>
To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at collaborativefusion.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: memory above 4Gb ignored


>
> On 6 Feb 2007, at 12:23, Bill Moran wrote:
>
> I don't know whether its related - I just got a brand new Dell XPS
> 710 H2C with a QX6700 - The
> system uses the Nvidia 590 chipset - It has 4GB memory and Two GTX
> 8800 7xx MB
> graphics cards even with PAE enabled it only finds 2,5GB - However I
> am not sure how
> well the Nvidia 590 for Intel Works - Identcpu states that there is
> only 4MB of cache etc
>
>
> > In response to Jim Pazarena <fquest at ccstores.com>:
> >
> >> I do not see any reference to resolving the
> >> "786432K of memory above 4Gb ignored" anywhere in Google or
> >> otherwise.
> >>
> >> I see references to it for FreeBSD 4.XX, but I am running 6.2, and
> >> have
> >> the same problem.
> >>
> >> Is there any easy solution? For a hoot, I installed SuSe 10.2 on
> >> my machine
> >> and it recognized the full 4Gb; FreeBSD does not.
> >
> > Your searches didn't find this?:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/
> > troubleshoot.html#PAE
> >
> > -- 
> > Bill Moran
> > Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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