RAM not recognized
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fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue Mar 4 04:16:58 UTC 2008
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:51:42 -0500
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
And also bear in mind that amd64 uses memory less efficiently than i386
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