AMD64 or I386

Albert Shih shih at math.jussieu.fr
Thu Feb 23 14:16:48 PST 2006


 Le 22/02/2006 à 18:29:37-0800, Atanas a écrit
> Albert Shih said the following on 02/22/06 16:59:
> >Hi all
> >
> >I've very strange problem with my new servers with AMD single core dual
> >proc with 4 Go Ram.
> >
> >When I boot the i386 version of FreeBSD 6.0 he see 4 Go but tell me he
> >can't not access to 4go but only 3 Go. I upgrade to FreeBSD 6-Stable and 
> >nothing change.
> >
> >When I boot the amd64 version of FreeBSD 6.0 he see 5 Go (!!) but tell me
> >he can access only 4 go (well). When I upgrade to FreeBSD 6-Stable nothing
> >change.
> >
> >My problem is I need i386 version (because I'need maxima who need
> >sbcl...and sbcl don't run on amd64).
> >
> >If I tell the kernel I've 4 Go the system don't boot (kernel panic).
> >
> >What can I do.
> >
> You might need to compile a PAE enabled kernel, see the pae(4) man page 
> for more details.
> 

Very thanks all of you...

Everey thing work fine 

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FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Feb 23 23:02:58 UTC 2006
    root at isis5.edcsm.jussieu.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ISIS-PAE
ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD          APIC  >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 (2210.20-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x20f51  Stepping = 1
  Features=0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,
SSE2>
  Features2=0x1<SSE3>
  AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,<b25>,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
real memory  = 5368709120 (5120 MB)
avail memory = 4182499328 (3988 MB)


Very thanks again. You save my life (weeel no exactly ;-) but thanks...)


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Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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