Installed memory today, questions immediately

[Jon Radel]

On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote:
>
> I installed 4GB or memory today.  I rebooted and see this, the first 
> line after the splash menu thing:
>
> 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored
>
> dmesg shows avail mem amount and I am concerned as well:
>
> real memory  = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
> avail memory = 3139940352 (2994 MB)
>
> is a stick bad perhaps?
>
Start by reading 
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory.html

If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little 
information about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using.

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--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com