Installed memory today, questions immediately

[Leslie Jensen]

On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel <jon at radel.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>

I would suggest you to give us the output of uname -a

I suspect you are running the 32-bit version of FreeBSD and it cannot 
address more that 3 Gb of RAM.

/Leslie