FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

[Wojciech Puchar]

use amd64


On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, Robert Heron wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use:
>
> FreeBSD 7.0-R on i386 server with motherboard S5000VSA and 6GB RAM onboard. 
> BIOS version - 88 (the latest)
>
> Kernel includes: options		MAXMEM=(6*1024*1024)
>
> And FreeBSD reports only:
>
> real memory  = 2680160256 (2556 MB)
> avail memory = 2617892864 (2496 MB)
>
> Why? What is wrong that FreeBSD sees only about 2.5GB instead of 6GB?
>
> Robert
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