RAM not recognized
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Tue Mar 4 00:50:13 UTC 2008
Paul A. Procacci writes:
> > AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> > Cores per package: 4
> > real memory = 3484745728 (3323 MB)
> > avail memory = 3405631488 (3247 MB)
> This is not a problem of FreeBSD but of i386/x86 architecture
> which max memory limit is 4GB i theory and 3-3.5GB in practice,
> you can use PAE to use 36bit addressing (instead of default
> 32bit) for memory to get full 4GB on i386 but you will not be
> able to have loadable kernel modules for example, other sollution
> for this is using amd64/64bit FreeBSD, where you will have full
> 4GB and even more without any problems.
... and not be able to run some ports; some won't run in native 64
bit mode, some won't run at all.
Robert Huff
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