Real vs available memory

[Frank Seltzer]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank

Forgot to say this is on 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606