Real vs available memory

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On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:19:31 -0500 (EST)
Frank Seltzer wrote:

> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I
> have added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The
> system BIOS sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD
> but I get this during boot.
> 
> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
> 
> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?

If it's because you're using the i386 version, you need to install
amd64 version instead.