Installed memory today, questions immediately

[justin v]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:35 -0700, Robert Bonomi  
<bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote:

>> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Fri Nov  5 01:18:07 2010
>> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100
>> From: Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu>
>> To: justin v <vic at yeaguy.com>
>> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>,
>>         Jon Radel <jon at radel.com>
>> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Must be a hardware issue, too.  I'm running 7.2/i386 on a P-III box, and
> the boot messages shows 3.9+ gigs 'avail mem'.  I double-checked, no  
> mention
> of PAE in the kernel config, either.
>
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I running 32bit OS.. i should have run 64bit actually.. I forgot about the  
memory limitations with 32bit os.

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