Real vs available memory

[Daniel Mayfield]

Run this command:

sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu’

If you see “amd64” in there, you want the 64 bit (amd64) version of FreeBSD.  If you don’t, you’re out of luck.

Dan

On 9Dec 2014, at 11:00, Frank Seltzer <frank_s at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 
>> On 12/9/2014 10:19 AM, 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?
>> 
>> 
>> What does
>> uname -a
>> show ? Are you by chance running i386 inadvertently ?
>> 
>> 	---Mike
> 
> FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec 8 14:36:16 EST 2014 frank_s at xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> 
> Should I be running something else?
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