8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

[Rick C. Petty]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Mark Stapper wrote:
> 
> I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64.
> However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram.
> Strangely enough, it says the following:
> [root at carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory
> real memory  = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
> avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB)
> 
> and
> [root at carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem
> [/snip]
> hw.physmem: 4277510144
> hw.usermem: 3954216960
> hw.realmem: 4831838208
> [/snip]

Are you sure you're using amd64 and not i386?

% uname -a
FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0 r196086: Sat Aug  8 17:22:29 CDT 2009     root at myhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

% sysctl -a | grep hw.....mem
hw.physmem: 8571977728
hw.usermem: 7794733056
hw.realmem: 9395240960

What motherboard/CPU?  What does the BIOS report for memory?  Let's see
the first part of dmesg from a verbose boot.

-- Rick C. Petty